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Home 🌿 Marijuana Business News 🌿 Queens First Marijuana Production Plant Will Have 230,000 Square Feet of Space 🌿Queens First Marijuana Production Plant Will Have 230,000 Square Feet of Space
You wouldn't know it from the outside, but a Queens warehouse has been turned into a marijuana farm.
Contractors are still building the facility, but behind these walls, thousands of plants are already growing across two floors for use as medical marijuana beginning in January.
Owner Bloomfield Industries gave us a first look at renderings. When completed, the plant will have 230,000 square feet of space, the equivalent of four football fields.
"It will be five floors," said Colette Bellefleur, chief operating officer of Bloomfield Industries. "Four will be grow, and one floor will be manufacturing and production."
New York is the 23rd state to legalize medical marijuana. The first crop in Queens was planted this fall and will be harvested in a few weeks.
It's not widely known, but state law bans medical marijuana from being smoked. So the marijuana grown in Long Island City will be processed on...
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