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US (ME): Father and son move back to Winslow to revive 200-plus-year-old farm anchored by cannabsi crop

As Mark and Leon Robie revive their family’s more than two-century-old farmland on Cushman Road, they hope to grow a crop atypical of traditional farming.

The father and son petitioned the Winslow Town Council with a request to adjust the town’s medical cannabis ordinance to allow medical cannabis caregiver cultivation facilities in more areas of town.

“I’d like to grow medicine that really, really does benefit a lot of people, be able to live our own lives on a piece of land and have that piece of land sustain us,  and hopefully help sustain people in the local community,” said Leon Robie, 24.

“We want to do it well, do it legally and create a really, really high quality product that people can trust,” added his father, Mark Robie, 65.

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