Town officials here are backing a proposal by a well-known medical marijuana entrepreneur to grow pot at the former Seneca Army Depot midway between Syracuse and Rochester.
Josh Stanley, who helped develop a strain of medical marijuana known as “Charlotte’s Web” used to treat epileptic children, wants to build a greenhouse to grow marijuana on a 20-acre site within the 11,000-acre former Army base that closed in 2000.
Stanley told town officials at a meeting Wednesday the project would initially create 20 jobs and eventually 250.
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