Medicinal cannabis to be grown in Muckle Toon
£2m ‘farm’ will be the first in Scotland
Langholm is to be home to Scotland’s first medicinal cannabis farm.
Millions of plants will be legally grown in a vast 11,000 sq metre complex, just a few miles out of the town on the Eskdalemuir road, after the private company behind it secured £2m of funding. Hilltop Leaf will then turn the cannabis into medicinal products such as oil – which advocates say can be used to treat conditions from back pain to multiple sclerosis. Usually available to buy online, the products can also be obtained through specialist prescription.
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