What happens when you add penny candy to a dime bag? Some $25 million in gross revenue this year. A marketing whiz, Nancy Whiteman launched Wana Brands in 2010 and slowly but surely has turned her cannabis infused gummies into the top-selling edibles company in the country. But what started as experiments with pot in a 135-square-foot test kitchen (“infused Nutella is really good,” she says) has become a business so booming, it now happens in a facility more than 100 times that size. The company continues to, well, grow like a weed (its three-year growth rate is at 269 percent), thanks to Whiteman’s aggressive moves into new markets. When she considered expanding to vapes last year, she says, “People told us, ‘The world does not need another vape brand.’” But she didn’t listen, and nine months later, those vapes make up 10 percent of the business. This fall, it’s spinning off a new company, Wana Wellness, to make hemp products. “Our first offerings,” she says, “of course will be hemp gummies.”