The availability of medical marijuana in New Hampshire is a big step closer to reality after the state gave approval to the first of three locations to cultivate the drug.
The Department of Health and Human Services confirmed Friday that it has started mailing out identification cards to 176 Granite Staters who qualified to purchase medical marijuana. The drug first has to be grown and cultivated, and Rochester is one of three locations where that will happen.
Products cultivated at the facility will then be driven to the company’s dispensary in Plymouth, which is scheduled to be open by April.
Many neighbors of the cultivation facility on Spaulding Avenue said they’re in favor of the operation.
“I have a son-in-law that has ALS, and he does have a medical marijuana card through Maine, and it helps him immensely,” Rochester resident Maritza Rivera said. “It doesn’t worry me one bit, where they’re right down the street.”
Officials have described the process of bringing the facility into the city as smooth.
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