White Pine company wants to grow medical marijuana in mine

SubTerra is definitely an entrepreneurial-thinking company. Using underground mines as a controlled environment for growing medicinal plants is their business, and they're exploring ways to make Michigan's medical marijuana laws work for them.

Excerpt: In this hard-luck town in Michigan's western Upper Peninsula, rumors persist of a company growing pot deep in the bowels of a former copper mine nearby.

In 2010, the rumors got so bad, the State Police contacted the owners and asked to inspect the White Pine Mine sometime in the next couple of days.

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Source: Detroit Free Press
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