Marijuana grow facility may be forced close because it reeks
A marijuana grow operation in Denver could go up in smoke because neighbors are sick of the smell.
The grower Starbuds wants to renew its cultivation license, but residents are urging city officials to deny the application — complaining that the operation is negatively affecting the neighborhood with its excessive odors, according to the Denver Post.
Starbuds is located in a mixed-use zoning area, but the hearing officer Suzanne A. Fasing says that the operation does not comply with the neighborhood’s restrictions. Fasing has suggested the city revoke its license.
But Starbuds argues there is no proof their product reeks.
“To take away a license, with the livelihoods of a licensee and its employees at stake, based upon the speculative belief of four witnesses, with absolutely no scientific evidence, is unconscionable,” wrote Jim C. McTurnan, Starbuds attorney, to the Department of Excise and Licenses.
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