MuskokaPharma Inc. is still moving ahead with plans to open a medical marijuana growing operation at the old Tembec flooring plant. Since their announcement, another player has come on board in Bracebridge – which will bring the number of marijuana growing operations to two in Muskoka, if they are successful.
There are currently 39 licensed producers across Canada. New growers are required to be licensed by Health Canada under the Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations (ACMPR), which on August 24, 2016 replaced the Marijuana for Medical Purposes Regulations. The laws involving the growing and consuming of medical marijuana have been steadily changing. You can find a summary on Health Canada’s website here.
Once MuskokaPharma Inc. is given all the required approvals from Health Canada, it is anticipating it will have hired 100 employees by year three of its operation.
MuskokaPharma Inc. President Allan Holman said the company is still in the personnel security clearance stage and anticipates that will take a couple of months. It will then enter the final licensing stage, which involves a thorough review by Health Canada.“That takes about 3-4 months and after that we will be able to start to build out our facility,” said Holman.
You can find more information about the licensing process here and Doppler’s initial story here.
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Ms. Peterson;
you make great points but as I sit here scratching my head, I wonder how this is relevant to the article?
This Town has just gone through another series of public input meeting about our visioning for the future. I attended two local meetings and participated in the feedback . I asked the Facilitators if any of the years of work we did in the sustainable community over the last ten years of my personal participation was in the process. Many people worked for years to create start-up funding for Our Unity Plan which actually accomplished nothing after all those years of volunteers and staff putting in hours. It became very apparent in the early days of the Doughty admin that all of that work would sit on a shelf. I really saw that message silenced and all of our concerns dismissed.
Huntsville has become disconnected from its responsibility to protect the ecology that provides for us everything that we have. Any real attempt to protect watershed or heritage or economy since all of these things has been silenced. I can see the ducks are now all lined up to let places like Grandview go when more development of waterfronts and density would just add to the harm already happening. I sat at a Council meeting when Deerhurst approvals were getting voted on and Robert Hurst spoke about Pen Lake densities and no one seemed to listen.
Our visioning and Unity Plan means nothing until decisions made at the town reflect a restoration of our watershed not further exploitation. I am sure all will go ahead for this development without a hitch, it has been planned for a long time and it looks like there is no way to slow down. Tourism will continue and poverty will grow , the rich always get richer when they do not have to account to their grandchildren about how they made their money . Huntsville has a watershed emergency sitting just up river at the old Tannery lands . Are there leachates coming from the chemicals buried there 65 years ago . I just hope everyone is ready to consider that the Muskoka River is currently and systemically being poisoned from this site where there are VATS of nasty chemicals buried there.
This is a hugely exciting economic impact for Huntsville. With the Town’s endeavours to jumpstart attainable housing, the expansion of Deerhurst, growth in manufacturing, the expansion of Muskoka Landing and Muskoka Pharma’ anticipated 100 jobs we may have reached a tipping point that will attract workers to relocate to Huntsville. Let’s get the word out.