Inside look at a Canadian medical marijuana producer

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The burning debate over legalizing marijuana was on full display last week. HBO’s Real Time host Bill Maher sparked up a joint on TV, blowing smoke in the face of lawmakers and challenging them to come to their senses.

Here in Canada, Bill Blair, Toronto’s former top cop, has been put in charge of the pot portfolio. Blair has repeated, in multiple interviews, that while he supports legalization, the emphasis will be on “control” and “strict regulation” — something the current marijuana industry knows all too well.

I decided to strap on a lab coat and hairnet to obtain an inside look at one of Canada’s fastest-growing industries: The bud business.

Pulling up to the front gates of Aphria Inc. (LP), one of Canada’s leading medical marijuana producers, it looked like any other greenhouse in the Leamington, Ont., area, aside from the barbwire-lined fences. Leamington may be the “Tomato Capital...

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