Health Canada Swamped with Medical Marijuana Business Applications
There’s no business like grow business. Health Canada is struggling to process a mountain of applications for licences to grow medical marijuana as the country experiences a “greenrush” of firms wanting to grab a piece of the coming boom. The department had received 858 applications as of late last month, and new ones were coming in the door at an average of 25 a week. The application frenzy has drawn basement growers, well-heeled entrepreneurs with pharmacy expertise and even struggling [...]