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Neighbours living next to a Port Colborne medical marijuana operation allege pot waste is being dumped in a field — and teenagers are coming in to scavenge for smokeable weed. Wednesday, Muileboom Organics executives telling CHCH News they don’t dump any pot in the field. But if anyone finds anything other than composted tomato plants — that would a surprise to the company.
Austen Holoday says he watched last fall as workers at Muileboom, the medical marijuana plant next door dumped waste in the field: It was just a bunch of huge stalks, with a bunch of moldy buds all over them.”
Waste he is convinced was marijuana. There are piles of plant waste over there.
John Ressler is a neighbour: “There’s one pile out in the far corner of the field. And the pile just over here. Another pile on the other side of the greenhouse.”
These people don’t like having a medical marijuana plant in the neighbourhood. They say they’re concerned about their well water and the lighting and the potential for crime.
One woman sent us an email saying that weeks ago a teenager gave her a small packet of pot that they got from one of these piles. A packet that she gave to police.
A uniformed officer did take away a small black bag of decomposing, musty plant material, that did smell like marijuana. They believe it was marijana. But police can’t verify where it came from. And say even if it did come Muileboom Organics there’s nothing criminal about it.
Muileboom organics say since they took over they don’t throw waste in the field.
Steve McNeil is with Muileboom Organics: “We’re putting all those in a container which will be carted away by a third party for proper disposal.”
They say employees told them the only waste out here is tomato plants. But when our cameraman went out there, he saw old marijuana plants.
Steve said: “If it’s been there for a year, if there was something dumped in there before we took over, it would have absolutely no value.”
But neighbours ask why is it still there.
Nancy Misener is a neighbour: “It would seem to me the responsible thing to do would be chopping up under the new regulations to deter the kids from thinking they can romp around back there.”
Steve said: “If there was anything there, we’ll certainly dispose of that. If there’s anything in that pile we’ll get rid of it.”
As for allegations that teenagers are taking pot plants from here — those familiar with marijuana say it’d be difficult to smoke this.
