Shangri-La Farms has proposed a new outdoor cannabis cultivation operation in Delaware and, if approved, it could double the numbers of pot plants currently growing in the state.
According to Delaware Business Times, the multi-state cannabis operator wants to establish a three-acre cannabis grow on a nine-acre site near the town of Smyrna. Shangri-La's Head Grower Frank Alvarez-Gil would run the site with three full-time employees, and they estimate they could grow between 20.000 and 50,000 plants at a time. As the report points out, there are currently about 46,000 plants growing in the state.
But before Shangri-La can set up shop, it needs final approval from the Delaware Office of the Marijuana Commissioner, which recently held a public hearing after several neighbors formally expressed concerns.
One neighbor was worried about the smell from the facility and how it might impact their asthma. Alvarez-Gill said the smell would only be at its worst twice a year during harvest, and that the facility use a Fogco system and grow lower-terpene plant varieties to help control odor.
