US (NY): CBS tours medical marijuana growing facility
More than 8,000 patients have prescriptions statewide, but proposed rule changes could dramatically increase that number.
CBS2’s Brian Conybeare took an exclusive look inside one of only five legal pot production facilities in the state.
Off a two-lane road in Warren County, tucked behind trees, lies one of New York’s first medical marijuana grow houses.
Hillary Peckham, the 25-year-old CEO of Etain, LLC, says she suffered debilitating pain from a failed hip surgery several years ago but had to leave New York to legally obtain medical marijuana.
“Yes I have tried it and it did benefit my pain,” she said. “In New York, I’m not a patient so I cannot access this. So I also understand the frustration that patients have when they don’t qualify.”
Peckham gave CBS2 an exclusive tour of the company’s facility where everything is tracked from seed to sale, and patients are not allowed to light up.
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