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Cotton Plant

A teetotalling Arkansas mayor hopes medical marijuana will save his dying town.

11/16/2018 | Expired 12/05/2021

Cotton Plant

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REEL SOUTH

Cotton Plant

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A teetotalling Arkansas mayor hopes medical marijuana will save his dying town.

Cotton Plant, Arkansas grapples with steep and steady decline. Drowning in debt and immense population loss, the town faces a harsh reality: grow, or die. Mayor Willard C. Ryland, a teetotaler and deeply religious member of the Baptist church, examines his own opinions about the drug, eventually coming to see medical marijuana as the miracle that could save Cotton Plant.

11/16/2018 | Expired 12/05/2021

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REEL SOUTH

Cotton Plant

Special | 5m 45sVideo has Closed Captions

Cotton Plant, Arkansas grapples with steep and steady decline. Drowning in debt and immense population loss, the town faces a harsh reality: grow, or die. Mayor Willard C. Ryland, a teetotaler and deeply religious member of the Baptist church, examines his own opinions about the drug, eventually coming to see medical marijuana as the miracle that could save Cotton Plant.

11/16/2018 | Expired 12/05/2021

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