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August 25, 2016 - "One of Canada’s 35 licensed medical marijuana producers has big plans for the future – plans the size of 10 football fields.

That’s how big an automated greenhouse in Alberta will be once Vancouver-based Aurora Cannabis is finished building it out, the Calgary Sun reported. The grow will be roughly 600,000 square feet, with the capacity to produce more than 154,000 pounds of MMJ.

The facility is slated to be up and running in the summer of 2018, and could become the largest such operation in the country – although competitor Aphria Inc. recently bought a parcel of land capable of housing a 1-million-square-foot grow, the Sun reported.

Aurora Cannabis said it believes the Canadian MMJ market will be able to handle the supply it plans to produce, given that it estimates demand to be increasing 10% every month."

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September 8, 2016 - "Canada’s cannabis industry is poised for a period of increased mergers and acquisitions, according to financial market observers in the country.

M&A activity has already accelerated, Jacob Cawker, an attorney with Norton Rose Fulbright in Toronto, said in an article published on the online site Mondaq.

Cawker cited data from Virdian Capital and Research, a cannabis-focused index that showed 33 acquisitions conducted in 2014, with even more M&A activity predicted for the future.

Some analysts predict Canada’s cannabis industry will generate between $2.5 billion and $5 billion in annual revenues."

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August 29, 2016 - "Israel plans to begin exporting medical marijuana overseas, the nation’s agriculture minister said, a decision that comes soon after the government approved steps to make MMJ more widely available to patients in the country.

The Times of Israel reported the shipments would begin “soon.”

Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel told Israel Radio over the weekend that in two years the country will have “protocols in place that will allow farmers to grow cannabis,” according to Israel’s online Hebrew-language magazine Cannabis.

Ariel said he plans to approve a request to export MMJ abroad.

In June, the Israeli government approved a plan to remove curbs on medical cannabis cultivation and make the plant more available to more than 23,000 patients, according to the Times of Israel."

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It wouldn't hurt if Israel's hard-core Right-Wingers were OBLIGATED to consume a regular, daily requirement.​
 
October 19, 2016 - "In a desert region of southern Australia is a farm that grows and supplies 15 percent of the entire country's tomatoes without using soil, fresh water or fossil fuels.

Earlier this month Sundrop Farms marked the launch of what it called the "first commercial-scale facility of this calibre in the world", which uses solar power to de-salinate seawater and operate greenhouses in order to grow more than 15,000 tonnes of the red fruit each year.

Their tomatoes are being sold in hundreds of markets across the country.

In a statement released on October 6, the company said that in comparison with conventional greenhouse farms, its "cutting-edge, sustainable technology" will save significant amounts of natural resources and avoid a substantial level of pollution.

"Approximately 26,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year" would be avoided, which is "equivalent to removing 500 cars from our roads", it said.

The statement also said it could save fresh water - the equivalent of 180 Olympic size swimming pools - and more than two million litres of diesel a year.

"Our concentrated solar tower produces both heat and electricity to maintain the perfect conditions inside the greenhouses to help the plants grow. This heat is also used to de-salinate one million litres of seawater a day; the fresh water produced is used to water the plants and cool the greenhouses."

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October 25, 2016 - "Canada’s largest pharmacy chain, Shoppers Drug Mart, has formally applied to the federal government to be a distributor of medical marijuana.

If Shoppers Drug Mart is allowed to sell medical marijuana by Health Canada, it would mark a major shift in Canada’s medical marijuana market.

Currently, Canadian medical cannabis patients must either grow their own cannabis or order it from one of the 36 licensed cultivation companies in the country, which then mail it to patients.

Though Shoppers Drug Mart has applied to be a licensed producer, it would not grow its own medical marijuana, CBC News reported. The chain merely wants to sell cannabis through its more than 1,300 brick-and-mortar stores, according to the CBC.

The Globe and Mail reported that the application “is an administrative requirement to be able to distribute the drug.” The newspaper also said Shoppers Drug Mart wouldn’t be able to sell MMJ through its retail outlets unless the federal government updates its medical cannabis regulations.

The news likely will not be welcomed by Canadian dispensaries, which hope to be the main distribution source under recreational legalization.

Canada’s liberal government, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, plans to introduce legislation next spring legalizing adult-use marijuana."

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October 26, 2016 - "GW Pharmaceuticals, the British developer of a CBD-based anti-seizure medicine that could be on American shelves in 2018, has contracted Britain’s leading sugar supplier to grow its medical cannabis.

British Sugar, the top beet sugar supplier in the UK, will grow the cannabis in an 18-hectare greenhouse in eastern England, where the company now grows tomatoes, according to The Telegraph.

It’s an important advance for the cannabis industry to have yet another major mainstream company enter the sector.

British Sugar plans to plant the first seedlings in January and to have the first harvest in April. After the plants are picked, they will be packaged in bales on site and shipped to GW Pharma, The Telegraph said.

“Our glasshouse is very well-suited for growing that particular variety of the cannabis plant family and it’s fair to say that the return will be better than on tomatoes.
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We’re confident of decent yields,” Paul Kenward, managing partner of British Sugar, told The Telegraph."

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October 27, 2016 - "Canada’s widely anticipated recreational marijuana market could become a more than $22.6 billion industry once it’s legalized, according to a new report by Deloitte.

The accounting and consulting firm’s report, scheduled for release soon, concludes that adult-use marijuana will be a huge jump-start for the Canadian economy, the Toronto Star reported. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to introduce legislation to legalize rec marijuana next spring.

The report estimates the base retail market could be worth $4.9 billion-$8.7 billion annually based on a survey this summer of 5,000 Canadians, including 1,000 identified as recreational marijuana users, the newspaper reported.

The market could balloon to $12.7 billion-$22.6 billion with the inclusion of ancillary businesses such as infused product makers, testing labs, security and growers."

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November 2, 2016 - "Talk about an international operation.

An Australian nutraceutical company that manufactures hemp-based CBD products in Switzerland is planning to sell them in the Czech Republic, according to a news release from the company, Creso Pharma.

Creso, a public company that trades on the Australian stock exchange, said it has signed a distribution agreement with the Czech company MEDI-IN s.r.o. to distribute CBDium, a “food supplemental health product,” in more than 300 retail outlets within the Czech Republic.

The move became possible after Creso acquired a company in Slovakia called Hemp-Industries, Creso’s chairman and co-founder said in the release.

CBDium is Creso’s first foray into the hemp and cannabis markets. According to the news release, the company is planning more research and development in Switzerland into cannabis-related products for both humans and animals."

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"Those communists are taking our market, from us!!!"​
 
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