LONGMONT — A Wyoming investor is one step closer to turning a one-time organic egg farm into a medical-marijuana farm in Boulder County despite objections from residents.
Residents near the 67-acre property north of Longmont have until Aug. 19 to submit comments about the plan, and Boulder County commissioners can still hold a public hearing before voting on final approval.
Boulder County recently passed a law banning the use of agricultural land to grow marijuana but Laramie City Councilman Scott Mullner had already submitted his plans by then.
Mullner has no plans to grow the marijuana himself and a new state law prohibits him from doing so because he doesn’t live in Colorado. But he says he bought the farm as an investment and could potentially sell it to someone else.
