The Town of Walkill Board voted unanimously in favor of giving Valley Agriceuticals plant the go-ahead to build a marijuana cultivating and processing plant, according to the Times Herald Record.

The Purchase-based company's proposed facility would be the first of its kind the mid-Hudson region. Valley Agriceuticals wants to build the plant on a 70-acre site, using 10 acres of the site on Dosen Road near the Cortright Road intersection, and the other 60 acres would remain as farmland, the Times Herald Record reports.

The company must get permission from the state before operations start, but Wallkill Supervisor Dan Depew said the company can begin construction. The first phase of construction would be on facilities such as barns and greenhouses because it is in an agricultural zone.

On July 5, 2014, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed one of the most restricted medical marijuana bills in the U.S. into law. According to the NY Times, only 10 conditions will qualify for medical use of marijuana. The drug also may not be smoked; and New York will initially allow only 20 dispensaries across the state, run by five organizations.

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