National Guard, State Police Descend on 81-Year-Old’s Property to Seize Single Cannabis Plant
By Scott Merzbach, Daily Hampshire Gazette (republished with special permission)

Margaret Holcomb and her son Tim Holcomb stand where Margaret’s marijuana plant was seized Sept. 21 from her backyard in Amherst. (Photo: Andrew J. Whitaker/Gazette Staff)
All that remains of the solitary marijuana plant an 81-year-old grandmother had been growing behind her South Amherst home is a stump and a ragged hole in the ground.
Margaret Holcomb said she was growing the plant as medicine, a way to ease arthritis and glaucoma…
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