It's No April Fools Joke - Volusia County to Grow Marijuana

Just in time for spring planting, DeLand and Volusia County have received a federal grant to plant marijuana in neighborhoods and gateway corridors.

The grant, announced Thursday at DeLand City Hall, will pay for planting cannabis along Woodland Boulevard and New York Avenue in Downtown DeLand, and along Indiana Avenue between the Athens Theatre and the Justice Palace. Some of the plants will border the grounds of City Hall and the DeLand Police Station, Mayor Bob Agar said.

As reported by the BeaconOnlineNews, "It's a joint effort," City Manager Michael Plus explained, as a cloud of heavy, sweet smoke hung in the air of the City Commission chamber. "There will be no local dollars going into the grant program, but city crews will provide in-kind services in testing and planting the special herbs.'"

The U.S. Department of Agriculture grant has a street value of $1 million, and is part of the Weed and Seed Program in which DeLand has participated for several years.

Florida's congressional delegation secured the grant, as the last of its kind before the program is rolled into a larger single-source federal program to provide drugs under the new health-care-reform act passed by Congress and signed by President Obama.

"You might just call it pot luck," U.S. Rep. John Nica said.

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