WLKM Radio 95.9 FM
Constantine Village Council members recently adopted two resolutions affecting recreational marijuana facilities.
The first resolution increased the number of cultivation facilities from three to five. Meanwhile, the other resolution increased the number of processing facilities from one to two.
Village manager Mark Honeysett said he consulted village attorney Catherine Kaufman, who confirmed the village ordinance governing marijuana facilities could be amended by resolution.
Pure Provisioning LLC, at 635 Franklin St., has two marijuana permits, one for retail sales and the other for cultivation. Chad Biberstine, president and CEO for Pure Provisioning, attended the meeting, and proposed switching its current grow license to a processing license. Biberstine said his company wished to operate a processing facility and employ 10 full-time employees in the cultivation section, and four full-time employees in retail sales.
The village stinks! Literally. Like skunks dragged through sewers left out to dry in trees. The village fails to enforce strict emission controls. The repulsive smell can travel more than a mile from cultivation and processing centers. Wait till spring breezes. Worse, summer inversion and humidity! Add the added noise from processing.
The village is polluting village and the surrounding township and making resident’s lives worse just to get $200,000 additional taxes that will be go into management compensation not village improvement.
Aren’t these the guys pushing for weed nightclub lounges in every town? Drunk drivers aren’t enough? We need wasted ones?