Greetings from Trump's America: Woodruff County, Arkansas, where a mayor hopes marijuana will help his dying small town fly high again

A Dying Southern Town Needed a Miracle. Marijuana Came Calling.  (The New York Times, 3/24/2018)

Cotton Plant, Ark.  Arkansas voters decided in 2016 to legalize the plant for medical use, giving the state an opportunity both to develop a new industry and to address nagging social problems. The state’s licensing program encourages legal marijuana growers to set up shop where the new jobs are needed most, in perennially poor communities.  

Mr. Ryland, 63, is a teetotaler and regular churchgoer who was raised on a farm and never got caught up in the wilder side of the 1960s. But when a start-up company called Bold Team approached him about investing in his town, it hardly bothered him that they wanted to grow what President Ronald Reagan once declared to be “probably the most dangerous drug in the United States.”

Source:  Wikipedia

Source:  U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts

Source: Wikipedia

Education: High school graduate or higher, % 25 and older

• 75.5% - Woodruff County
• 85.2% - Arkansas
• 87.0% - U.S.

Education: Bachelor's degree or higher, % 25 and older

• 10.2% - Woodruff County
• 21.5% - Arkansas
• 30.3% - U.S.

Persons living in poverty

• 26.3% - Woodruff County
• 17.2% - Arkansas
• 12.7% - U.S.

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