Harry Brown exits a custom-painted former school bus on his farm in Starks. The town of 600 is one of a growing number of municipalities that are banning marijuana sales.
A sign marks the town line between Starks and Anson in Somerset County. Starks, host to a hemp festival, has long been Maine's epicenter of the legalize-pot movement.
Don Christen stands on the porch of his Starks home. Christen organizes pot-related festivals in the surrounding community.
Jodi Stebbins takes a bong hit at Harry Brown's house in Starks. Stebbins organizes cannabis-related festivals at Brown's farm.
Brown takes a whiff of homegrown, dried marijuana.Evenets scheduled for Brown's farm include: Harry’s Hoe Down, June 23-25; Green Love Renaissance, Aug. 18-20; and Harvest Ball, Oct. 6-9.
From the porch at Harry Brown's house, Stebbins basks in a fleeting glimpse of sun during a cloudy stretch in late May. After years of being the site of the Hempstock, the town of Starks has now voted three times against the legal sale of marijuana.
Christen greets his Doberman, named Sage, in his Starks home. Maine’s best-known cannabis celebration, Hempstock, began in Starks in 1991.
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