Californians with specific medical permits to grow their own marijuana for personal medical use and for the medical use of those in their collective. Between the inadequacy of multiple prescribed painkillers and Watson’s background in farming, one path forward seemed clear. And so, Watson built his first hydroponic cannabis garden. Cut to post-graduation, when Watson’s passion for cultivating and breeding new strains of cannabis for various medical purposes only grew. Even though he experienced a few hiccups, including in the immediate year after graduation when his mother caught him growing in a crawl
space in his parents’ house, Watson continued to cultivate cannabis. During those years, Watson also transitioned between a few jobs, including working as a building engineer and a project engineer before eventually landing a fulfilling job with one of San Francisco’s first sustainable engineering firms. But on the side of each position, he maintained his garden and he continuously developed his cultivation techniques and new strains of cannabis. Eventually, Watson decided to open his dispensary. Watson and his partner, Sean Devlin, who focused on the front-of-house because of his background in hospitality, spent months
consulting with the local neighborhood in Dogpatch and working through community concerns around opening a cannabis dispensary there. From the beginning, Watson and Devlin have been focused on their community. Their current loyal clientele stands as a testament to the quality of their cannabis products and the quality of their customer care. Today, Dutchman’s Flat is a local favorite. Whatever your cannabis needs or desires, Dutchman’s Flat can guide you in the right direction, and maybe the right direction for you will even lead to a strain that Watson himself created.
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