Garden Connections opens

Hydroponics on Jackson Road

by Sally Mitani

posted 7/31/2011

"Marijuana is the undercurrent of our business," acknowledges Shane Callanan, owner of Garden Connections, a new hydroponics store in Jackson Road's Independence Plaza. Because of its fussiness and high value, marijuana is the poster-child crop for controlled indoor growing environments. But although medical marijuana is legal in Michigan, Callanan explains that most of his suppliers prefer that he follow federal laws, so hydroponic purveyors in states like Michigan try to cultivate other kinds of customers.

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