Licensed cannabis producer and processor Solstice, based in Washington State, focuses predominantly on the dried flower and also provides some pre-rolled and concentrate products. Its primary goals are to cultivate the very best cannabis varieties in an environmentally responsible way while being an active participant in the community and a voice for the cannabis industry.
The Cannabis Council of Canada is the national trade association for licensed producers under Bill C-45, the Cannabis Act. It represents the vast majority of cultivators approved by Health Canada to grow and process cannabis in this country. Its mission is to advocate for key common positions to make the industry more viable while helping its members generate strong employment opportunities for Canadians.
Organicures provides the production of high quality, pharmaceutical grade cannabis. All the cannabidiol (CBD) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) products are one hundred percent organic, and it has its own innovative research and development laboratories. The company’s main goal is to consistently provide an incredible, quality product in all areas of the world that recognize the benefits of legalizing cannabis.
Industrial hemp is a cannabis plant variety with very low concentrations of the psychoactive compound tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) that is grown specifically for industrial purposes. It grows quite quickly and has a wide range of applications, as many useful products can be derived from it. Hemp can be processed into pulp for making paper, spun into fibres for creating textiles, made into food, fuel, plastics, and much more.
Ceres Greenhouse Solutions is a greenhouse design company unlike any of the others that are simply steel manufacturers. Rather, Ceres has a business model that focuses on changing the traditional greenhouse design that has been used as the standard for over a century in the greenhouse industry.
Zenabis is a Canadian privately-held licensed producer of medical and recreational cannabis that is positioned to be a global leader in cannabis production and distribution. The company specializes in the entire process of delivering cannabis to the market including growing, drying, packaging and distribution. With a track record providing Canadians with safe, high quality medical cannabis, Zenabis is actively engaged in patient education, physician counselling and raising awareness around cannabis and its derivatives.
The primary message of the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA) is that the cannabis industry must take an active role in policy making and lobbying in order to change the laws that directly affect the industry. The necessary changes include specific factors such as ending the 280E tax code application that unfairly taxes cannabis businesses and allowing for safe access to banking as well as comprehensive cannabis policy reform such as removing marijuana from the schedule of controlled substances and implementing legislation that allows states to determine their own policies.
At its state of the art medical and recreational cultivation facilities and in a recently expanded extraction laboratory, the Malones and their team are hard at work creating Colorado’s most distinctive premium concentrates.
“At Artemis Link, our mission is to provide a service to the industry that’s rooted in craft, quality and integrity. Our motto is ‘Honest Distribution’ because we pride ourselves on the relationships we cultivate and the transparency we offer to our farm and processor partners,” says Whitney Hobbs, the owner of Artemis Link.
In 2014, the Marijuana for Medical Purposes Regulations (MMPR) was launched and with it, Organigram was one of approximately twenty companies that were licensed and approved at that time for medical cannabis production and sales.