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Grower from Brewster raises concerns about annual cannabis application fees and LCB testing shutdown
Summary
A local cannabis cultivator called into the commissioners to describe years of compliance work and object to recently increased annual application fees; the caller also recounted the 2023 pesticide testing shutdown that cost months of lost sales.
Anders Taylor, a cannabis grower who identified himself as operating north of Brewster, told the Board of Commissioners during public comment that long‑standing growers are shouldering a heavy regulatory and tax burden and that a recently expanded annual application fee structure was unfair to operations that had previously completed permitting and facility approvals.
Taylor described his operation's investments in raw land,…
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