After seeing other metro-east cities get a taste of the state’s burgeoning legal cannabis industry, aldermen on Monday will consider granting permits to the first cannabis-related business seeking to operate in Belleville.
Shalondria Simpson, a pharmacist from Texas, is asking the city for a special-use permit to operate an indoor pot farm that could have up to $6 million in annual gross revenue, according to her “conservative” estimate listed in her application.
The cannabis would not be sold to the public at the farm. Instead, Simpson is asking for a special-use permit to deliver the weed products to dispensaries that sell the cured and processed cannabis to the public. Simpson also needs approval from the state.
The pot growing business is officially known as an “adult-use cannabis craft grower organization” and the delivery business is known as an “adult-use cannabis transporting organization,” according to state law.
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