If you want a bottle of booze in downstate Albion, you have to drive out of town.
But the Edwards County town of less than 2,000 residents is the site of a huge medical marijuana farm.
The seemingly contradictory situation has led some in town to declare Albion “high and dry.”
And a local shop has sold dozens of T-shirts with the pithy phrase.
“The high is we’re growing marijuana here in Albion,” Ald. Arrol Stewart said with a laugh. “The dry is two of the convenience stores have applied for a package liquor license and they were turned down. The city council voted against it.”
