Something Stinks, Littleton
When I toured the Webster property last fall, along with a half dozen other people, I could smell the cannabis plants.
And I was not alone. The group remarked on the very distinctive scent (stench, for some) coming downhill from Sanctuary at 234 Taylor Street on a windless afternoon.
Over the years, I’ve heard lots of people complaining about the scent/stench coming from Sanctuary. I don’t know if I’ve heard a lot of those complaints because people associate me with cannabis or if it’s because when I’ve spoken about cannabis, it triggers the other person to complain about the scent/stench coming from Sanctuary.
How is this scent/stench happening in 2024 if Littleton was told, way back on September 26, 2016, what a great community member Sanctuary would be?
Click HERE to see how that representation was made.
First, you’ll see Jason Sidman, CEO of Sanctuary Medicinals come into the Select Board meeting. He’s wearing a black golf shirt with Sanctuary’s icon embroidered on the front.
Also in attendance are five other men, all in matching Sanctuary shirts; two men in suits, and the then-Chief of Police from Rochester, NH Michael Allen—in full 4-starred uniform—who announced, fifty (50) days after appearing at this Select Board meeting with Jason Sidman that he (Allen) had decided to retire from law enforcement and was cagey on the details as to what his future held.
Given Allen’s performance in the four-minute video (starting at the 2:49:11 mark) and Allen’s endorsements of—and denials of any self-interest in—Sanctuary when speaking to Littleton’s Select Board, it should come as no surprise that Allen was snapped up as Chief of Security by both Jason Sidman and David Giannetta—though, to be fair, David Giannetta might not have had much choice in the matter, ancillary as he seemed to the entire business that was/is Community Care Collective.
In the post-video chit-chat with the Select Board, Allen went to great lengths to explain how he was “happy to come down” to Littleton to assure our leaders that the police in Rochester, where Jason Sidman had already begun growing cannabis (indoors, in a retro-fitted building, just like Sidman was planning on doing in Littleton) had had “zero calls” and “zero complaints” about Sanctuary’s “1st class” facility that was, according to Chief of Police Allen, the “safest building in the city.”
Well, that got me thinking:
Has Littleton’s Police Department received “zero calls” and “zero complaints” about Sanctuary? Or, is it possible that I’m the only one who’s heard the complaints about the smell/stench coming from Sanctuary?
So I asked LPD this afternoon, in a Public Records Request:
List of Police activity and or involvement, from March 2016 to present, at 234 Taylor Street and/or Sanctuary, Sanctuary Medicinals, Jason Sidman, Michael Allen, Josh Weaver, including but not limited to a list of calls received by LPD about the location and or the aforementioned business and people, a list of police visits made to 234 Taylor Street, any and all police reports about 234 Taylor Street, Sanctuary, Sanctuary Medicinals, Jason Sidman, Scott Allen, and/or Josh Weaver.
This is Sanctuary’s logo:
A fitting icon for a cannabis grow facility whose smell/stench is not kept contained, don’t you think?
Jenna