Anne Hogeland, bottom, addresses the Williamstown Planning Board and Town Planer Andrew Groff, top left. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. For more than a year, the Planning Board has been hearing from people with strong opinions about whether the town should allow outdoor cannabis cultivation. On Thursday, one member made a plea for comments who are not quite as invested in the issue. We re going to hear those [strong advocates], and there s a reason they re the ones who are most interested. But you ve got a much larger portion of the town. … That s the stress testing I d like to know. Maybe it s not possible before you put [a bylaw amendment] up there. But I d like to know, for the massive middle of folks, whether [setbacks] ranging from 100 feet to 400 feet, allowing the largest size [plantation] but making it more restrictive, whether these ideas are intuitive to them, whether it makes sense to them, whether it s something they could see in their town.