By Ken Sain | The Daily Courier
Valley farmers Mike and Kate O’Connor said they were blissfully unaware of what was happening back home while they were on a three-week vacation touring the New England states, enjoying the fall colors.
“It’s pretty much the only time we can be away from the farm that long,” Mike O’Connor said. When they returned, they started going through the newspapers that had piled up to catch up on the news.
The O’Connors grow mostly tomatoes, but they also rent out some land they own on Road 1 East to a marijuana grower. After reading the stories on the town’s efforts to limit future marijuana businesses, Kate O’Connor-Massey said she placed a call to Ruth Mayday, the town’s director of development services.
“It’s far past time that city’s start treating this use like any other legal land use. There have been no problems with the state licensed facilities and attempts to overly restrict these uses are really just attacks on medical marijuana.”
~ Rose Law Group Partner Ryan Hurley
