Business potential of marijuana has seldom been in doubt.
The recent stamp of approval from Canadian lawmakers however, has suddenly
added a dash of white to it.
After years of filing paperwork, planning presentations and
understanding the medical benefits, Health Canada finally approved commercial
production of Marijuana under regulations for prescribed medication only. Like
Israel before them, it is a ground-breaking achievement for the distinctive
‘grass’ hitherto pigeonholed as a contraband drug.
That reputation is partly the reason that the sprawling
55,000 square-foot MedReleaf warehouse in Markham, Ontario has kept away from
media glare. It protects the plants, and the employees from garnering the
unwelcome kind of attention.
However, when scribes and media personnel from Metro News
Canada visited the facilities recently, they had nothing but good vibes to
relay.
For a start, the production unit boasts of high quality
safety and health measures. Floors, HVAC and storage facilities are hygienic to
the point of meeting the steep standards of ISO 8 (at part with clinical
operating rooms) – something which enables MedReleaf to brand their product as
“Medical grade Marijuana”. Head of quality control, Angelo Fefekos certainly
carried the compulsively clean standards from his previous workplace of Mount
Sinai hospitals. He adds more rain-checks like testing gloved hands for
contamination and disinfecting trimming and cutting equipments. While Health
Canada only mandates checks on end products, such mid-level testing certainly
adds medical finesse to the procedure.
CEO Neil Closnerfurther explains the involvement, and his
faith in the government, who were serious about regulating the medical marijuana production and endorsing its effects when monitored in prescribed
quantities. The particular high quality strains (Avidekel), rich in
anti-inflammatory properties, but low on hallucinatory chemicals makes for a
great medicinal material. Nutrients, light and water in the facility are
regulated equally well. Furthermore, the inventory count of what goes in and
out of trimming room is strictly monitored, as is the air quality, vacuum seal
and even the rollover stocks (Stored in a safe, inside physical barriers and
another level of electronic security).
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MedReleaf is turning pot into a pot of gold for new
investors too, who see the business potential in an increasingly legalized
prescription medicine field. The scopes of this particular medicine species can
blossom as the MedReleaf would be the first ever pharmaceutical company to
introduce effectively processed cannabis derived marijuana and other diverse
medicinal grass plant essentials for mitigating and treating several human
strain and neurologic health driven issues and disorders.
As the warehouse explores bigger business capacity,
targeting 150,000 organic plants in near future, and a target patient base of
nearly 10,000 you wonder how science can turn the ‘poison’ into ‘elixir’ by
merely staying true to its purpose. As
the scribes from Metro reported, that familiar smell didn’t seem all that
harmful any more.
