CBS2 joined state cannabis managers from Albany on Tuesday as they visited smaller cultivators on Long Island who are preparing for the first harvest of adult-use marijuana. McLoganTV reports.
"The state of New York now is licensing me to grow it, so I'm excited to do a new crop. I've been doing orchids all my life," Bianchi said.Bianchi is known for his beautiful orchids, but within 10 days one of his greenhouses will flip to cannabis, where costly upgrades in water, racks, and lighting are ready for his new plants.
Across the East End of Long Island, the state's cannabis control board is touring newly licensed farms. "They're growing vegetables out here and cannabis," said Damian Fagon, the Office of Cannabis Management's chief equity officer."Multi-generational New York family farms growing the first legal cannabis crop."
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