The massive, 67,000 square foot greenhouse, in Middletown, Maryland, equipped with huge sliding metal trays, is like a plant assembly line.
A line that, for the time being, is idled due to damage from a winter snowstorm.
Still, Larry Gude, whose family has grown ornamental flowers since 1889, has hope-- and a plan.
“Did you ever dream when you were a kid, just starting out, that you’d be growing medical marijuana?’ he was asked. “No,” Gude answered, chuckling. “In the culture then, it was pot, it was Woodstock and all that. I had no idea there were any medicinal purposes at all.”
How times have changed-- maybe.
The Frederick County Council is considering whether to approve the growing of medical marijuana in the area, as part of an eight-year pilot program.
But there are restrictions to the proposal.
