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Vermont Marijuana Legalization Advocates Stress Importance Of Small And Local

Vermont Public | By Mitch Wertlieb
Published July 31, 2015 at 9:21 AM EDT
A marijuana plant.
Brennan Linsley
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Associated Press File
Local weed? That's the idea behind "Vermont Home Grown," an effort to focus on small, local production of marijuana if Vermont legalizes it for recreational use.

If a Vermont State Senator and some advocacy groups in Windham County have their way, the phrase "Vermont Home Grown" could be a reference not just to food, but also to marijuana.

In fact, Vermont Home Grown is one of the groups that joined Senator Jeanette White this week at the River Gardens in Brattleboro to discuss proposed legislation that would legalize the recreational use of marijuana in Vermont.
 
Reporter Howard Weiss-Tisman covered the meeting and has been writing about the legalize-it movement in the Brattleboro Reformer. Read his story here.
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Mitch Wertlieb
A graduate of NYU with a Master's Degree in journalism, Mitch has more than 20 years experience in radio news. He got his start as news director at NYU's college station, and moved on to a news director (and part-time DJ position) for commercial radio station WMVY on Martha's Vineyard. But public radio was where Mitch wanted to be and he eventually moved on to Boston where he worked for six years in a number of different capacities at member station WBUR...as a Senior Producer, Editor, and fill-in co-host of the nationally distributed Here and Now. Mitch has been a guest host of the national NPR sports program "Only A Game". He's also worked as an editor and producer for international news coverage with Monitor Radio in Boston.
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