A South Carolina woman who has been searching for land to start a pot growing business in town has purchased a 76-acre plot and is preparing to build.
But some neighbors and residents are not pleased with Jennifer Pilbin's plans. Some say anything that smacks of industry off any of this hill town's bucolic country lanes is not welcome. Yet there are no cannabis zoning laws in place yet to stop it.
Pilbin has been here before. In July, residents chased her away from a 70-acre parcel off Town Hill Road on which she would locate her business and home.
Undaunted, Pilbin simply continued her search for land to build a fully enclosed, 20,000-square-foot grow and manufacturing facility, and her home, on which she will soon begin construction, she said by phone Monday. She'll do all this while she looks for an investor to help finance the business at 12 West Hubbard Road.
"I'm moving up there and working on my business idea while I work my regular job," Pilbin said, noting that the company where she works transferred her north.
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