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Inside a $30 million bet on Mississippi’s medical marijuana industry

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In an unincorporated area outside Raymond stands what its chief executive claims will be the largest medical marijuana growing and manufacturing operation in Mississippi, if not the southeastern United States.

by Will Stribling, Mississippi Today May 18, 2022   The 163,000-square-foot behemoth once housed the state's Department of Revenue but is now the home of Mockingbird Cannabis, a $30 million bet on the state's medical marijuana industry. The facility includes 16 growing rooms, each capable of producing 250 to 300 pounds of marijuana every eight weeks.  It will be operated by more than 200 employees, with the lowest paid workers making $17 per hour.

This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.

 

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