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OTTAWA -- The RCMP has voiced concerns to Health Canada about an Alberta company's plans to cultivate opium poppies over fears the medicinal project could attract drug-peddling criminals.
Lethbridge-based API Labs Inc. says it understands the national police force's worries, but insists the risk of criminal involvement can be managed with the proper precautions.
The national police force expressed its reservations about API Labs' activities during a conference call with several other federal agencies -- including Public Safety, the Privy Council Office and Health Canada -- in April last year, an internal RCMP briefing note reveals.
The RCMP followed up the call with a letter to a Health Canada assistant deputy minister outlining the force's concerns about the possible diversion of opium poppy material to "the illicit market" as well as infiltration of the project by "organized crime groups," says the briefing note.
The partially censored July 2014 note to...
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