Canada: This Is What It Looks like Inside a Legal Pot Grow-Op
Inside licensed producer Mettrum’s 1,600-square-metre pot-growing facility — where the rows of Super Lemon Haze really do smell like lemons.
Forget the illegal marijuana “dispensaries” that are popping up like weeds across Toronto and will soon face a crackdown by city staff over zoning.
The only legally available medicinal marijuana is prescribed by a medical doctor, comes from producers licensed — and inspected — by Health Canada, and is delivered directly to patients’ doors by Canada Post.
While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government will introduce legislation next year permitting adult recreational use of cannabis, confusion swirling around the drug’s status in law has sparked a rise in pot shops.
These storefronts — opposed at city council and by Premier Kathleen Wynne, who has suggested marijuana should be sold at LCBO outlets once it’s legalized — have nothing to do with Ottawa’s Marijuana for Medical Purposes Regulations.
That strict federal regulatory regimen,...
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