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Tennessee Congressional Candidate Indicted For Growing Marijuana


Despite facing an indictment for her involvement in a marijuana growing operation, an east Tennessee Democrat running for Congress is proclaiming her innocence while noting that the situation reiterates the need for the country to decriminalize pot.

Florence "Flo" Matheson of Crossville, who is running for the 6th Congressional District seat occupied by U.S. Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., and Stephen Harrington are facing criminal indictment after authorities discovered more than 180 marijuana plants, guns and cash while searching a house and a barn at 16536 Genesis Road.

The address is the same one Matheson, 77, provided the secretary of state when filing paperwork to run in the August primary election.

"Some evidence of an illegal grow operation were found inside the residence, however, the full-scale cultivation was found in a large barn, just a few hundred yards away," authorities said in a statement.

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