Good to keep tabs on our Canadian competitor.
Had to go to a foreign site to do so, however:
indian-express.com
I hear the current regime in Afgan is big in gun running, terrorist camps, pot and hashish.
I suppose if HC were to rule against Pennsaid (reject), then perhaps Plan B for our sales and marketing group would be to get a franchise from the FEDs. Wouldn't need to layoff the new hires. Recycle all those brochures about our treatment for severe arthritis, cross out Pennsaid and replace with Medical Marijuana.
Lots of similarities between DMX and what the FEDs are doing. From the article we know the FEDs have a contract manufacturer, facilities are in secure place, 3000 plants at street value of at least $1200 /plant, guarentee of at least 3.5mm over 5 years. At least our Provalis distributor provides revenues of at least $2.8mm this year, so we're actually doing better. FED are also working on distribution details like DMX, but they should be out the gates by now, well before DMX in Canada. The FEDs and do this all in record time, no need for min 10 years of clinicals, scientific scrutiny on safety nor effiacy, no such silly thing as a gold standard WOMAC....
Its true I'm offended. Not bitter tonight, just tongue in cheek. Calgary 4-0 over Chicago. Second straight shutout. At this pace, the trend says 84 shutouts!! LOL
Canada’s first legal marijuana farm lies in copper mines
FLIN FLON (MANITOBA), AUG 3: GROWING marijuana is an underground
industry, especially when the Canadian government is the customer. Deep in
the earth of northern Manitoba, in an old copper-
mine-turned-underground-greenhouse, 3,000 pot plants are being grown for
Canada’s newly expanded medical marijuana programme.
The plants, nurtured by Prairie Plant Systems of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,
under a five-year, $3.7 million Government contract, are thriving in the
controlled subsurface environment of Canada’s first legal marijuana farm.
Health Minister Allan Rock who went down for a look on Thursday said the
43-day-old plants were almost six feet tall. Court decisions cleared the way for
medical marijuana in Canada, Rock said, as well as an efficient, legal supply
chain. So, he contracted Prairie Plant Systems to grow Government-regulated
marijuana for distribution to qualifying patients and for medical research.
As a lawyer and former Justice minister, Rock said he could have delayed the
implementation of the court rulings for decades. ‘‘That was not the right thing to
do. The right thing to do was to make (medical marijuana) available,’’ he said
after tour. ‘‘We have medical morphine and medical heroin, why not medical
marijuana?’’ Prairie Plants Operations in other abandoned mines, including one
in Michigan, have shown how plants thrive underground, where temperatures
are stable and variables such as light and nutrients can be controlled.
The Trout Lake mine near Flin Flon is a hydroponics lab carved out of the rock
hundreds of yards below the surface. The plants are grown under tight security
and the glare of powerful grow lights. ‘‘It is an experience to see this operation,’’
Rock said of the underground operation named in his honour as the Rock
Garden. Once the company harvests its first crop in October, the government
will inaugurate a distribution system for patients with terminal illnesses or
serious conditions including severe arthritis. Rock said details for distribution
need to be worked out and could include using doctors or pharmacies.
Flin Flon Mayor Dennis Ballard was thankful for the publicity the marijuana mine
has brought the city of 7,000, even if it comes with ‘‘humour and some
controversy.’’ A local shop, the Zig Zag Zone, has sold nearly 10,000 T-shirts
touting Flin Flon as the ‘‘Marijuana Capital of Canada.’’ Prairie Plant president
Brent Zettl hailed the project as the beginning of a new ‘‘biological era’’ in
technology, where production of pharmacological plants can move beyond
laboratories.
Rock said other countries have expressed interest in learning about the
expanded Canadian medical marijuana program that took effect on Monday,
along with the supply system. The policy differs sharply with that of the US,
where the Supreme Court affirmed a federal ban on medical marijuana earlier
this year. Canada also has a legal hemp industry, banned south of the border,
and its Supreme Court has agreed to consider a case challenging the
constitutionality of criminal marijuana laws. A committee has been established
to look at the nation’s drug laws, including the issue of de-criminalisation of
marijuana. Rock said that Canada has to adhere to international treaties
regarding drugs and drug laws, but insisted that it was committed to a
‘‘made-in-Canada drug policy.’’ (Agencies) |
