Marijuana is big business in Fitchburg, Massachusetts NBC Boston [Video]

Fitchburg, Massachusetts, a relatively small city in Worcester County, has transformed itself into a mega town for marijuana.

Converting an old wire-making factory into a cannabis cultivation operation, Garden Remedies was the first to move to Fitchburg in 2016.  Since then, six other companies have created similar set ups within the city’s limits and six others are in the pipeline.

“They’ve been very accommodating to us here in Fitchburg,” said Kyle Vigeant, vice president of Cultivation for Garden Remedies, as he gave a tour of their Fitchburg facility.  “And, as you can see, we grow a lot of weed here.”

Fitchburg’s history as a factory town of paper mills, shoemakers and machine manufacturers has made it an ideal location for the fledgling cannabis industry, in need of sprawling buildings where rows of plants can grow, and rooms of chemistry equipment can be housed while meeting industry safety requirements. Since much …