Monday evening, the top brass of SDRK Group, LLC — better known as the Shango marijuana grow facility on Saginaw Street at the former site of Lapeer Grain south of the railroad tracks — were before the Lapeer City Commission to provide an update on their efforts to eliminate marijuana odor from their facility that has persisted for about a year.
"My building will be taken care of, but I want to make sure other buildings are too so I don't get blamed," said Andy Shango who attended the meeting along with the operations director Rick Thornton and consultant Joe Israel.
Thorton said they're working on a two-part solution to address the marijuana odor. The first effort is to use negative pressure in the marijuana grow, dry, and storage rooms. "When there's negative pressure it should end the odor," said Thornton, a process he said could take 90 days to implement once parts are ordered and delivered. If that doesn't work, a more costly second option is to negatively charge the air — a process that could take as many as 120 days to complete. This approach would utilize hi-tech air scrubbers and ozone gas.
Ozone is a clean technology used to purify cannabis. An industrial ozone generator produces ozone gas by passing oxygen over a high-voltage electrical discharge. This breaks down oxygen molecules into individual atoms, which react with other oxygen molecules to form ozone gas. After reacting with cannabis, the ozone gas turns back into oxygen, leaving no chemicals or byproducts.
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