Source: WILKES JOURNAL-PATRIOT, 7/27/18

At the dead end of a rural dirt road just east of the Wilkesboros, beyond abandoned chicken houses that now store hay, there’s history coming out of the ground. In a 75-foot-square plot of bottomland along a meandering creek, the first legal marijuana plants grown in Wilkes County are shooting out of rich soil, standing about a foot tall from seeds put in the ground just over a month ago. 

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