Medical marijuana manufacturing
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Starting this week, the federal government will start to establish a new protocol for the use of medical marijuana. Individual providers will no longer be allowed to grow their own, in private homes. Instead, new companies, licensed by Health Canada, and inspected by the RCMP, will begin producing and distributing medical marijuana on an industrial scale, nationwide. To give you some idea of the scope of this industry, it’s expected to generate more than $1 billion in revenue every year. Health Canada estimates that, within the next decade, more than 450,000 Canadians will be using medical marijuana. So far, more than 180 private firms, have applied to be licensed under the new regime. And as for the cost to patients? Well, that will be determined by supply and demand. But for the moment, estimates range between three, and seven dollars per gram.
Scot Urquhart was given access to one of the prospective new facilities recently. It’s a small operation in rural Ontario that, for security reasons, we’ve agreed not to identify. Here’s his inside look at the current state, of the field of medical marijuana.
