When Twisted Growers LLC received a special permit from the Zoning Board of Appeals in January of 2020 to cultivate and process adult-use recreational cannabis at 415 Millennium Circle, the owners assumed that the permit also covered the conversion of the cannabis grown there into oils, tinctures, and edible products, as well as the usual processing of the dried “flower” tops for smokers.
That’s what the licenses the state Cannabis Control Commission (CCC) issued to Twisted Growers for its Lakeville locations say, but somehow the manufacturing of related cannabis products and foodstuffs was left off the 2019 application that the local Appeals Board approved in 2020.
The 2020 special permit allowed cultivation and the minimal processing of the flowering buds into a dried product for sale to retailers, but did not specifically allow advanced processing for food or other products containing cannabis.
Company principal Domenick DeMartino blamed a former attorney unfamiliar with cannabis control regulations and permitting procedures for the oversight in the original application. His new attorney suggested at an April 14 Appeals Board public hearing that the one-room manufacturing operation was a minor modification of the 2020 special permit, and asked that a new special permit be speedily approved.
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