About 30 chamber of commerce members turned out Oct. 23 to tour Plantae Health, a marijuana dispensary, among them bankers, escrow officers, a retired engineer, a city councilman, a public health official and the mayor.
The guests sipped coffee and sampled pastries while mingling in the clean, sparse reception area of the dispensary in a small commercial strip on U.S. Highway 97 just south of the center of town.
The morning conviviality gave way to questions and answers.
No, said Andrew Anderson, co-owner of the dispensary with his wife, Jocelyn Anderson, the aroma of marijuana wafting from a neighbor’s greenhouse won’t get you high, and the plant roots do not contaminate the soil with psychoactive chemicals.
A week later, the ribbon-cutting euphoria at Plantae Health, one of three medical marijuana dispensaries in Madras, had evaporated.
The Madras City Council on Tuesday agreed to put on the November 2016
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