Our company was originally built on the mission of harm reduction – helping our friends and families quit smoking with the help of vapor products.
Turning Leaf’s corporate headquarters are located in Northeast Minneapolis, Minnesota. We originally opened our doors as Infinite Vapor in 2012 – at the time there were no other Vapor stores in Minnesota, and National Manufacturing Standards were nonexistent in the industry. Thus, resulting in a marketplace filled with unsafe and untested products.
This sparked owners, Gavin Rydell and Beecher Vaillancourt to take matters into their own hands, building an ISO 6, 9001-certified lab, hiring a chemist, and formulating e-liquids. This ensured a consistency in quality that they were willing to ingest in their own bodies. And, with the help of vapor, both Gavin and Beecher have successfully transitioned from smoking cigarettes to vapor to no longer vaping at all. To us, that is a success. Along with their partner, William Boldenow, they opened retail locations across the Midwest to help others on their journey of harm reduction.
The trio sought to change the “wild west” landscape of the vape world, by creating superior e-liquid products formulated with quality ingredients.
When the Farm Bill passed in 2018, it created an opportunity for us to expand our harm-reduction offerings, branching into CBD products.
The legislation made it possible for us to increase our existing lab production and infrastructure to accommodate new hemp-derived CBD products. We view hemp and other plant-based alternatives as tools to provide ease, comfort, and release in your every day without the harsh side effects or addicting nature that so often couple prescribed medications and opioids.*