My hometown of Smiths Falls is being abandoned once again
to town and hosted charity golf tournaments, a car show and summer yoga festival, and inspired local stores to start selling weed paraphernalia.
The staff at the facility – who harvested in their greenhouses, packaged, labelled and meticulously marketed their products just as Hershey’s staff once did – have built this publicly traded multinational brand from nothing. The people of Smiths Falls were proud to pioneer medical and recreational cannabis. They showed up, nurtured and bred billions of plants that have shipped off around the world, and managed to keep profits moving as best they could during the pandemic.
What I see through this cloud of smoke and betrayal is a clear message that the working class is expendable. We’ve seen similar boom and bust towns across North America that have lived and died at the hands of one large private employer but rarely does the story repeat itself in the same place.
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