Fields of Green: An Inside Look at How Medical Marijuana Is Made in New York
Tucked in the rolling hills of Orange County, New York, inside a row of anonymous buildings and behind doors bristling with security, is an operation few have ever seen.
Welcome to Pharmacann, one of five companies licensed by the State of New York to manufacture and distribute medical marijuana. In giant greenhouses covering the equivalent of three football fields are fields of green in every sense.
“The term factory is a little bit of an understatement, because these are state of the art manufacturing facilities,” said Jeremy Unruh.
Unruh is a former prosecutor and the general counsel for Pharmacann. He says what you see in these facilities is an industry that’s taking root.
“Nobody has done medical cannabis on this scale. We don’t produce anything that you can smoke or that you can eat. Everything is extracted into an oil,” Unruh said.
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