{"id":25176,"date":"2024-11-27T11:51:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T16:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=25176"},"modified":"2024-11-27T11:51:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T16:51:11","slug":"the-rise-of-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/the-rise-of-smoke\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of Smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23d7d7d7&amp;d=dec24_issuu&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=36&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p2\">Farmers navigate the rapid growth of medical cannabis.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\">Story by Tess Davis<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">Since before the Civil War, the humble spud held fast as Maine\u2019s top cash crop. However, a shift occurred in 2020 when medical cannabis usurped that high position over potatoes and blueberries. While Maine\u2019s Potato industry revenue brought in around $238M in 2023, medical cannabis brought in a whopping $280M.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">Medical cannabis farmers like <strong>Brady Palmer<\/strong> are embracing healthier farming techniques. Palmer, who opened his farm in 2014, always loved gardening, but he made his living as the owner of a real estate office. After a surprise open heart surgery in 2009, he decided he needed a change, transitioning to farming full-time. <strong>Grumpy\u2019s Organic Farm<\/strong><b>,<\/b> in Manchester, Maine, was born.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25177\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/RiseofSmoke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/RiseofSmoke.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/RiseofSmoke-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/RiseofSmoke-480x251.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spud Who?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1492],"class_list":["post-25176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-december-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25198,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25176\/revisions\/25198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}