'Security Cows' Will Guard This Hawaiian Cannabis Farm
To keep his licensed medical cannabis crop safe, Hawaii farmer Richard Ha is going beyond the security measures — surveillance cameras, an alarm system — mandated by the state. He’s hired cows. Security cows.
“We’re not going to have armed guards,” he told his neighbors, “because we’d end up shooting ourselves.”It’s not quite what neighbors had in mind when they asked whether guards would patrol the grounds of his new grow site, one of the first to be awarded a state license. But Ha believed that armed guards would do more harm than good.
A prominent farmer on the Big Island, Ha recalled the lessons he learned in his days as a banana grower. “Some people rip off bananas,” he explained to Leafly in a phone interview earlier this week. And those people, in order to lop their loot from the plants, usually carry machetes. It’s a commonsense conclusion, Ha...
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