Exiting his pickup truck, Steve Groff stepped out onto an earthen lane earlier this month, gesturing toward a row of tents on his Holtwood farm and the dozens of dark green plants hung to dry inside.
Walking beneath one of the canopies, Groff reached out and grabbed a plant, pulling it to his nose before breathing in.
âYou have to smell this,â he said, proud of the crop that looked and smelled a lot like marijuana.
It wasnât, Groff made clear. The plant was actually legally grown hemp, another form of cannabis that can be cultivated in Pennsylvania as long as farmers maintain a strict limit on THC, the psychoactive substance that produces a high.