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The meeting, organized by Rhonda Martin, a local woman concerned over the rapid growth of the local cannabis industry, focused in on a massive cannabis grow operation on Fourth Line on the outskirts of Ohsweken. The operation has raised the ire of its neighbours who found the operation growing up almost in their backyards. But instead of the meeting raising tempers it turned into an educational awareness and support session not only for the facility still under construction, but for Six Nations\u2019 cannabis industry. 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