Inside the Cupboard
by Brittiany Ralls
In a home built in 1912 sits a little dispensary, beautifully redone on the inside, keeping as many original pieces of the structure as possible, including the kitchen sink….. pun intended. Sitting on a stool in the main area of the dispensary, The Green Cupboard, is Khiel Hoffman. Khiel a young, tattooed businessman that dives head first into everything he does and cares for, has created TGC Processing. A company that is devoted to an elevated edible experience that incorporates health aspects by not using preservatives, not adding extra sugars, creating edible options that aren’t just candy, and processing only solventless extracts. There’s more to TGC Processing and Khiel than just that. Coming from a long line of Oklahoman’s, Khiel is knowledgeable in his family’s history and takes a lot of pride in being part of the Hoffman family. Showing from his Hoffman Bikes t-shirt that he is wearing in blue and his tone when he speaks of his family, it’s easy to see his devotion.
How did you get started in the (cannabis) industry? We were the first cannabis on Classen, we were the first ones. There was CBD plus, but they were just CBD. There wasn’t any other cannabis at all. No one was here yet, so when we started it was like, fresh! Nobody really had any cannabis, but we did have cannabis. But (before opening) we went to CO a few times, just to learn and see how they are doing it. Because I went to college in Cali, and I really knew California dispensaries really well and so I wanted to see how CO was doing it and seemed like a cluster-fuck for the lack of a better word. We learned all that and said well we are just going to stick with one farmer, we found our farmer. TwistedRoo, and only exclusively carried their products. That’s it.
Khiel being a huge believer in deep water culture cannabis, he sought out a grow that was just that. Going on social media one day Khiel thought, “Maybe if I just type in #dwc, what would pop up?” Low and behold Twisted Roo was one of the first accounts. Twisted Roo doesn’t put their cannabis in any store. Conversing back and forth through social media and coming to check out the Green Cupboard as a retail spot for Twisted Roo, they were able to form a bond that would allow a relationship to flourish into what it is today. Twisted Roo now working with TGC Processing, with Khiel teaching Twisted Roo how to make a lot of his recipes for edibles and extracts. Building even further the history of Hoffman’s in the Oklahoma community and continuing that legacy he is very proud of.
Starting with the dispensary and continuing education by working with Twisted Roo isn’t where the Hoffman business train stops. BioClean Remediation is a company that cleans up crime scenes, and sterilizes surgery rooms in hospitals. Casinos have even hired BioClean Remediation as a way to clean the money that goes through the casinos, thus ensuring even clean money when you gamble. The Hoffman family was quickly able to see the benefits of their company in the cannabis industry with the ability to remediate cannabis and assist in the cleanings of cannabis facilities. With that being said, they are only able to take limited accounts until the new facility is ready to accommodate all the possibilities of assisting cannabis grows and casinos. While this is a great option for many in the cannabis industry, Khiel wanted to make sure to let me know that the process is expensive. BioClean Remediation does work with all the medical cannabis labs in Oklahoma and strives to have good relationships that allow them to do the correct procedures to ensure a safe and quality product to patients.
Having family in the medical industry, Khiel is a hardcore staunch when it comes to solventless extractions. Because of this you won’t find shatters, waxes, or live resins created by TGC Processing. You will only be able to acquire products that have been solventless extracted thus hopefully ensuring a more medically accepted product. For processing with TGC, your company, why is solventless such an important aspect to you? For the fact that its (solvent extractions) aren’t used in any other community. So if I’m doing live resin or any other ethanol extraction, any kind like that, it’s not used in any other consumption of any other industry. So, the gastro-people in the chef world use dry ice a little bit to do molecular changes to cook properly in that way, um, the medical community scoffs at it. You can not fully re-extract out ethanol. Ya’ll can hate me if you want…. It’s not possible. If you were to, it would take the original form it had. I will light fire to anybody’s live resin… anybody’s ethanol extraction, anyone’s anything that is not completely solventless, I will light it on fire and it will stay lit like a candle, no matter what. It just doesn’t, it doesn’t matter. You can taste it, so the fact that no other medical community is going to use it. When the FDA approval does happen, and it will happen one day, all that other stuff is going to have to go bye-bye, and we are going to have to do something different.
With having such strong opinions on cannabis and its methods of consumption it’s easy to see that TGC Processing isn’t one to back down and start riding the coattails of what Khiel would call, “your garage chemists,” and start making concentrates that are using chemicals like ethanol. According to Khiel cannabis has helped his whole family stop using pharmaceuticals and alcohol, so you can see why the health aspect may be so important to someone who cares for their family to such an intense capacity. While also hoping to help patients realize the standards that may one day be set by federal legalization of cannabis. Between Twisted Roo training, setting up Green Cupboard and building a new facility for BioClean Remediation, Khiel has a long journey ahead of him. Having a heart for helping and a mind for creating, TGC Processing has the capabilities of going a long way. Oklahoma, be on the lookout for even more elevated cannabis options in the future.
