Grow Life 420

A cannabis extraction plant is slated to open in central Edmonton as edible products continue to work their way into the legal marketplace.

Edmonton-based Token Naturals recently announced it has secured a long-term lease on an 8,300-square-foot facility in a 60,000-square-foot industrial lot, with the hopes of constructing an operation with the ability to process up to 65,000 kilograms of dried flower into cannabis extract each year.

Keenan Pascal, CEO of Token Naturals, said securing the lease is a milestone for the company that focuses on working with local producers to create different extract products. The lease of the space off Yellowhead Trail will also help the company move forward with its Health Canada application to sell and process cannabis.

– Read the entire article at Edmonton Journal.

Cannabis shops have started selling marijuana seeds as the coming summer brings the first legal growing season for pot smokers looking for a home-grown high.

The legalization of cannabis last October included the option for private citizens to grow plants at home, but seeds weren’t available from distributors in Alberta until last month. Seeds are now available through Fire and Flower Cannabis online and at their location in Sherwood Park as well as at Nova Cannabis in Edmonton.

Jayden Colwell, a first-time grower, expects to get eight ounces worth of smokable marijuana once he harvests the plants he’s growing in his Calgary home.

“If you can get a tomato plant to grow, you can get a cannabis plant to grow,” said Colwell. “They call it weed for a reason, it’s fairly easy.”

– Read the entire article at Edmonton Journal.