WONDER WEED
Bad weather is good at highlighting poor clothing choices. I’d chosen to wear walking boots for my trip to Margent Farm as it was a wet summer’s day. But as owner Steve Barron walked me through the rain-soaked, knee-high grass surrounding one of his fields, and cold water began leeching up my jeans, I saw the wisdom of his decision to wear Wellingtons.
Steve’s 21-hectare farm in Cambridgeshire used to grow wheat but, since he took over in 2016, it has become home to a different crop. When I visited in June 2021, the plants sown just a few weeks earlier were already a metre high in places. Although diffcult to identify from a distance, up close they were unmistakable: Steve was growing cannabis.
“You’d have to smoke an eight-hectare field of hemp before you got high”
LETTER OF THE LAW
Cannabis is a Class B
