Local Organic Farmer Gets Probation For Growing Pot

A Union County judge is allowing an organic farmer to keep his 5-acre property where authorities found he was growing hundreds of marijuana plants last summer.Investigators cleared Welly's business partner, who said she had no idea he had been growing marijuana.
33-year-old Adam Welly is the co-founder of Wayward Seed Farm, one of central Ohio's largest organic farms and supplies food to restaurants throughout the region. The judge ordered Welly to serve five years probation for growing the marijuana. He pleaded guilty earlier this year to a charge of marijuana cultivation. Welly's attorney says he grew the plants to make money at a time he was struggling financially.   Authorities cleared his business partner, who says she had no idea Welly had been growing pot.