It's no secret that Connecticut's adult-use marijuana industry has had a bumpy rollout since its launch two years ago. A recent tour of Fine Fettle's new cannabis cultivation facility in Bloomfield revealed a few of the on-the-ground effects of that difficult start.
"We have three more of these rooms right now that have just been sitting like this since December," said Erik Bjornson, Fine Fettle's director of facility operations and production, looking around a fully equipped but empty growing room during a late-March visit.
"We thought we'd be fully open already," said Kennard Ray, Fine Fettle's CEO of social equity licenses.
This 46,000-square-foot, new-build facility represents a $30 million investment for the company, which also has separate operations in Massachusetts and Georgia.
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