Earl Tillett’s marijuana plants can be seen at his Providence Forge home.
Artist Chris Foote is painting a mural on the outside of Homegrown VA, a new company that will sell marijuana garden supplies. The photo was taken on Friday, June 25th, 2021.
Artist Chris Foote is painting a mural on the outside of Homegrown VA, a new company that will sell marijuana garden supplies. The photo was taken on Friday, June 25th, 2021.
Artist Chris Foote is painting a mural on the outside of Homegrown VA, a new company that will sell marijuana garden supplies. The photo was taken on Friday, June 25th, 2021.
Homegrown VA, a new company that will sell marijuana garden supplies in Scott’s Addition, will have a garden behind their business. It plans to open its parking lot to people who want to share marijuana seeds with one another.
Earl Tillett says the new law could help end the stigma surrounding marijuana.
Earl Tillett’s cat Snickers rests on his leg in his Providence Forge, Virginia home.
Earl Tillett grows marijuana plants at his Providence Forge home. Starting July 1, Virginia residents will be able to grow up to four marijuana plants per household.
Earl Tillett looks at his marijuana plants in his Providence Forge home. Starting July 1, Virginia residents will be able to grow up to four marijuana plants per household.
Earl Tillett looks at his marijuana plants in his Providence Forge home. Starting July 1, Virginia residents will be able to grow up to four marijuana plants per household.
Earl Tillett looks at his marijuana plants in his Providence Forge home. Starting July 1, Virginia residents will be able to grow up to four marijuana plants per household.
With Northam’s signature, Virginia becomes the first state in the south to legalize marijuana
When he was in his early 20s, Earl Tillett took the clothes out of the closet in his bedroom and converted it into a “grow room”. Back then it was a mixture of curiosity and relaxation.
“I grew up on a farm and wanted to grow something. I started in a greenhouse and my mother tore my buds apart, ”said Tillett, now 46.
For the New Kent County resident who served in the U.S. Army and later lost a leg in an accident, marijuana is more than a pleasure or a hobby: it’s therapy, pain relief, and an ointment for post-traumatic stress.
For Anah Johnson, 26, one way to reconnect with my ancestry and culture is when she puts her hands in the ground to tend a marijuana plant.
“Marijuana is an ancient medicine for black people,” said Johnson, praising the plant’s metaphysical properties. But instead of cultivating that legacy, she said, marijuana has instead been used to “vilify and target people in the black community even though whites smoke as much as blacks.”
Your hope of growing marijuana will not involve expensive tents or lights other than what comes from the sun. “I really just want to put them in soil and watch them grow,” said Johnson, a Richmond resident.
Johnson and Tillett will be among the hundreds or thousands of Virginians hoping to grow and harvest their own marijuana and consume the drug as the state begins a year-long process of legalizing the drug.