A former worker at the cannabis growing company Salt Pond Medicinal Pathways called state inspectors in October offering information about the South Kingstown business.
"It's a very big free-for-all down there," she said in her recorded voice message, "and I do have some information that I'm not sure if you guys should be notified about."
The next day inspectors with the Office of Cannabis Regulation showed up at the licensed grow establishment, where they reported seeing things they hadn't seen during an earlier visit as the business sought final approval for renovations. Among the new discoveries they would note: a tall green tent erected in a new section of a storage room with a "cannabis grinder machine" inside it.
A grinder separates the buds from other parts of the plant. And this grinder was connected to a metal chute that led through a wall and down one floor into a garage.
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