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December 5, 2018

Plympton-Wyoming may soon be home to a medical marijuana producer.
During a discussion at the Nov. 28 town council meeting, Chief Administrative Officer Carolyn Tripp told council there is a company interested in setting up shop in the Central Lambton municipality.
Tripp tells The Independent officials from Lambton County and Plympton-Wyoming have been working with a company which has an agreement to use a property in the municipality. The plan is to build a greenhouse to produce medical marijuana.
Tripp didn’t want to give specifics about the planned project but she did say the company contacted the municipality “about a year ago.”

For more on what is planned and what the municipality can do to deal with problems such as smell and light pollution, pick up your copy of The Independent on newsstands now.

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