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CAN (ON): Buzz around Oro-Medonte cannabis farm 'much ado about nothing'

Four years ago, about 150 Oro-Medonte residents penned letters of protest against the establishment of a cannabis operation on the outskirts of Shanty Bay, between Line 2 South and Line 3 South, owned by Medical Saints.

On Thursday, one day after Oro-Medonte council passed a bylaw that spells out what Medical Saints is allowed to do on the site, based on the Ontario Land Tribunal decision, issued on July 17, and Ontario Land Tribunal order, issued on July 19, BarrieToday visited the cannabis company's neighbours to get their reaction to the township's decision.

Predictably, some was positive and some was negative.

Perhaps surprisingly, some of it illustrated how fatigued people in the community are with the subject.

"It should have been closed when it started," said one neighbour, who lives across from the facility on Line 3 South. "I can't believe it's still going."

Read more at bradfordtoday.ca

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