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Committee hears HB 301 to let treatment centers add greenhouse cultivation locations
Summary
House Bill 301 would allow licensed alternative treatment centers to add cultivation locations such as greenhouses, subject to local zoning, DHHS oversight and existing security rules. Supporters say greenhouses lower production costs and diversify products; opponents flagged wording and potential for increased illicit cultivation if unchecked.
CONCORD — House Bill 301, a proposal to permit Alternative Treatment Centers (ATCs) to operate additional cultivation locations including greenhouses, was the subject of a public hearing before the House Committee on Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs.
Sponsor Representative Suzanne Vail (Nashua) said the bill would allow ATCs to grow cannabis in greenhouses — still in enclosed, locked structures and subject to local zoning and DHHS rules — so producers can use natural sunlight and reduce energy bills that are passed to patients. “Greenhouse cultivation is more economical,” Vail said, adding that greenhouse-grown plants sometimes produce different cannabinoid or terpene profiles.
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