Canada: Expensive Marijuana Bunkers
Past a barbed-wire fence and motion sensors, and under the gaze of 31 cameras, Shawn Galbraith opens the door to a two-storey, windowless concrete structure amid the lush Central Saanich farmland. It’s the region’s worst-kept secret: a medical marijuana facility on Lochside Drive, next to the family-owned Michell’s Farm.
The head of the operation, Galbraith, has been reluctant to offer media tours because his company, Evergreen Medicinal Supply Inc., is in the final stage of Health Canada’s approval process, a complicated 18-month journey that he doesn’t want to jeopardize.
Other prospective medical-marijuana operations — CEN Biotech is the most high-profile case — have had their applications rejected for misleading investors to believe they were already licensed or on the verge of being licensed by Health Canada. So Galbraith, a 53-year-old former contractor, is being cautious.
In fact, cautious optimism has been his attitude the whole way. He acknowledges the risk...
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