OLIVETTE — A prominent medical marijuana firm wants to put a new production facility here.
Some say it doesn’t pass the smell test.
A growing group of residents are worried Proper Cannabis’ new place will unleash noxious odors on nearby homes and threaten residents’ health. They plan to urge the Olivette City Council at its Tuesday meeting to slow its roll.
“It’s a bad idea,” said Kim Good, who runs a custom frame shop nearby. “I think the city is setting itself up for a bad situation.”
Missouri’s medical marijuana experiment has largely avoided organized local opposition in its first few years, even as communities in states like Massachusetts and New Jersey ran facilities out of town with regulations. But business owners in Des Peres just spent weeks trying to fight a new dispensary set to go in there. And now the neighbors in Olivette are raising questions.
Proper Cannabis CEO John Pennington tried to offer some answers at the last Olivette council meeting.
