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Steelers Hall of Fame linebacker Jack Ham waits to be interviewed at a groundbreaking ceremony for AGRiMED Industries medical marijuana growing operation being built in Cumberland Township. Ham now works for AGRiMED. Construction of the first building of the operations can be seen in the background.

Sterling Crockett, chief executive officer of AGRiMED Industries, speaks at a AT his side is Steelers Hall of Fame linebacker Jack Ham, who now works for AGRiMED.

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NEMACOLIN – Property on which there were once plans to construct a power plant that would burn waste coal from the nearby Nemacolin Mine coal refuse dump will soon go green – medical marijuana green, that is.

Groundbreaking ceremonies were held Wednesday at the 61-acre site off Thomas Road in Cumberland Township for the first building of AGRiMED Industries’ medical marijuana growing and processing plant.

The company will initially build a 16,000 square foot manufactured steel building in which it will begin growing medical cannabis for the state’s new medical marijuana program.

Local officials and company representatives attending the ceremonies touted the benefits the plant will have in creating local jobs as well as in producing a product that can benefit those with various medical conditions.

Everyone knows about the problems in the coal industry that have hit Greene County particularly hard in the last few years, county Commissioner Blair Zimmerman said. “Any industry that can create family-sustaining jobs is good,” he said.

The plant is initially expected to create about 20 jobs, a number that will increase as plant operations expand to about 60, AGRiMED officials said.

Steelers Hall of Fame linebacker Jack Ham waits to be interviewed at a groundbreaking ceremony for  AGRiMED Industries medical marijuana growing operation being built in Cumberland Township. Ham now works for AGRiMED. Construction of the first building of the operations can be seen in the background.

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