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SOCIETY Amish selling their homegrown weed at a cannabis festival.

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u/DebtPsychological461 2h ago

Yup, and the USDA told them to do it! The government promoted production dog breeding to farmers after WW2 as a “failure-proof” business after a number of disastrous crop failures in the midwestern US.

u/ergaster8213 21m ago

This actually helps explains to me part of why there are so many Amish breeders. So, thanks.