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Fulton Co. harvests first medical marijuana plants in NY

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Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 11/13/2015 - 08:18

Vireo Health is on track to reach its January deadline to provide severely sick patients with medical marijuana.

On Thursday, Vireo Health harvested its first medical marijuana plants. The organization only had four and half months to get to this stage and start making medicine.

Inside a tropical 80 degree room with high pressure sodium lights acting as the sun helping to speed up the process, Vireo CEO Dr. Kyle Kingsley showed off the state’s first medical marijuana plants.

Inside vireo #Medicalmarijuana pic.twitter.com/OZ8MGCu33r

— Trishna Begam (@TrishnaWTEN) November 12, 2015

“We didn’t grow these plants as big as they could be,” he said. “Didn’t have time.”

When the plants are babies, they usually sit in a room for eight weeks. But that timeline was shortened to about five weeks to meet the state’s deadline.

Chuck Schmitt is the head cultivator...

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