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State of the marijuana nation
One year post-legalization, a look at Canada’s changing relationship with pot
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For decades, the small town of Smiths Falls, located south of Ottawa, was synonymous with the Hershey’s chocolate factory. Now the refurbished facility at 1 Hershey Drive is a state-of-the art grow operation for medical marijuana owned by Tweed Inc., a subsidiary of Canada’s largest medical marijuana producer, Canopy Growth Corp. Along with its sister company Tweed Farms, a 32,516-square-metre greenhouse facility in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., Tweed is at the forefront of the fledgling medical marijuana industry in Canada. Here’s a peek inside the two facilities.
All photos courtesy Tweed Inc.
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This story is from the September/October 2019 Issue
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