In designing an efficient facility to grow medical marijuana, it is important that a well thought out plan is prepared and agreed to. Without this the cost of the project will escalate far above the budget. This plan needs to take into consideration all the requirements outlined in the regulations prepared by the governing body and the regulations of the municipality where the facility will be constructed.
The province's decision to allow heavily fortified medical marijuana production factories to be built on top of good agricultural farmland isn't sitting well with municipal politicians.
Several Lower Mainland cities wanted the new commercial pot producers that are being licensed by the federal government to be relegated to industrial land, arguing the high-security buildings would be a better fit there.
October 1st, saw the end of Colorado’s so-called "70/30 Rule" which required that dispensaries grow 70 percent of what they sold, and only purchase up to 30% from commercial marijuana growers.
More than 100 businesses are hoping to compete for the right to grow marijuana in Uruguay’s newly legalized pot market. Drug secretary Julio Calzada told The Associated Press in May that the government can satisfy demand in the legal pot market by licensing up to six growers to cultivate marijuana on plots no larger than 5 acres (2 hectares). 1
CMAJ has posted a very interesting article regarding a federal court challenge by four BC residents regarding new rules for where patients can obtain their marijuana:
The British Columbia federal court challenge of the new national laws preventing medicinal marijuana users from growing their own weed will be heard at the Supreme Court of Canada in February 2015.
