It’s now up to the feds to determine if a plan for a big-scale marijuana grow operation in Delta will get the go-ahead.
Emerald Health Therapeutics Inc. says it has filed an application to Health Canada for the proposed Pure Sunfarms’ facility in East Ladner, which is a partnership with greenhouse grower Village Farms. Emerald and Village Farms are retrofitting the massive greenhouse from tomato growing into a configuration optimized for large-scale cannabis cultivation. Emerald says it’s preparing for the production of pot in anticipation of legalization of the adult-use cannabis market on July 1, 2018.
The company says it aims to provide “superb customer experience.”
Mayor Los Jackson recently said the city has been receiving several inquiries a week by parties intertied in setting up marijuana grow operations on farmland. The city wants to restrict those operations to industrial areas in order for agricultural lands to continue to grow food, she said.
Canada is set to become the first industrialized nation to legalize and regulate marijuana from production to consumption.
