See Inside A Florida Nursery Ready To Grow Medical Marijuana

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If you think about growing medical marijuana, you probably picture pot growing in a field or maybe a green house. Instead, think prison, with a hint of laboratory.

At the end of a residential road in Lake Wales, you’ll pass a set of railroad tracks and then a 10-foot barbed wire fence. There’s a guard shack with cameras, and another barbed wire fence.

This is McCrory’s Sunny Hill nursery, between Tampa and Orlando, and just down the road from the plant that makes the Florida’s Natural orange juice.

Here I meet Darrin Potter, the chief horticultural officer for McCrory’s Nursery. He’s wearing jeans, a Grow Healthy polo shirt and a camouflage hat.

“And we make sure we do all of our due diligence before anybody comes into the property,” Potter said. “Because it is a highly secure environment. We’re not just growing cannabis out in a field.”

And to be clear, McCroy’s...

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