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When Cannabis Goes Corporate
Hershey stopped producing chocolate in Smiths Falls, Ontario, six years ago. The work went to Mexico, but the factory remains, along with reminders of the glory days: A sign that once directed school buses delivering children for tours. A fading, theme-park-style entrance that marks what used to be the big attraction — a “Chocolate Shoppe” that sold about $4 million of broken candy and bulk bars a year.
The once ever-present sweet smell of chocolate is gone, too. In the high-ceilinged warehouse, where stacks of Hershey’s bars and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups once awaited shipment, the nose now picks up a different odor: the woody, herbal aroma of 50,000 marijuana plants. Clinical, climate-controlled rooms with artificial sunlight house rows upon rows of plants at various stages of growth. In the “mother room,” horticulturalists use cuttings to start new plants. The “flowering rooms” are flooded with intense light 12 hours a day to nurture nearly grown plants in strains with vaguely aristocratic names like Argyle, Houndstooth and Twilling.
The new owner of this factory, at 1 Hershey Drive, is Tweed Marijuana. It is one of about 20 companies officially licensed to grow medical marijuana in Canada.
A court ordered the government to make marijuana available for medicinal purposes in 2000, but the first system for doing so created havoc. The government sold directly to approved consumers, but individuals were also permitted to grow for their own purposes or to turn over their growing to small operations. The free-for-all approach prompted a flood of complaints from police and local governments.
KEYWORDS: Cannabis, Chocolate Shoppe, Factory, government, corporate
"The government sold directly to approved consumers, but individuals were also permitted to grow for their own purposes or to turn over their growing to small operations"
PALABRAS CLAVES: Marihuana, Chocolate Shoppe, Fabrica, Gobierno, Corporación
"El gobierno vendió directamente a los consumidores aprobados, sino también los individuos se les permitió crecer para sus propios fines o para entregar a su cada vez mayor para las pequeñas operaciones"
Referencias
Austen, I (2014) "When Cannabis Goes Corporate", New York Times, [En Linea] URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/business/international/when-cannabis-goes-corporate.html?ref=business&_r=1
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