Montana wants to make cannabis businesses reduce their odor footprint

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A bill looks to force certain marijuana businesses to control the smell they produce

Carbon filters have been the best anti-odor systems for the indoor cultivation of cannabis plants (until the appearance of ozone generators). The anti-odor filters basically consist of a wall with a considerable thickness that is filled with granulated active carbon. In Montana, officials are seeking to get businesses to adopt tools like these through a recently introduced proposal.

Yesterday, a key vote was held in the House of Representatives on a measure that seeks to require marijuana producers to mitigate odor around their businesses. Following a positive outcome from both parties, Representative Jedediah Hinkle’s House Bill 304 appears to remain steady on track.

Hinkle, through his proposal, seeks to require all indoor cannabis manufacturing operations to install an air filtration system or other “odor neutralization system.” Growing cannabis indoors offers many advantages, including complete control over temperature, humidity, water and lighting.

This control of the growing environment allows you to improve plant health, optimize yields and keep pests and pathogens at bay. However, the legislator seeks that this practice does not have to affect its surroundings with odor.

In case the law is approved, it would come into force as soon as 2024 begins. Cannabis companies engaged in this activity will have a total of three months to comply with the new law. Unlike the original bill, some amendments have taken care to remove a provision that stated that the filter had to be strong enough so that no one with a “normal sense of smell” could detect the odor from outside the facility.