Pubdate: Sat, 21 Oct 2006
Source: Prince Albert Daily Herald (CN SN)
Copyright: 2006 Prince Albert Daily Herald
Contact:  http://www.paherald.sk.ca/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1918
Author: Murray Lyons

POT BUSINESS GROWS

SASKATOON - The federal Conservative government may have slashed 
research funding into medical marijuana earlier this month, but 
Prairie Plant Systems Inc., the Saskatoon company that has the 
contract to grow pot for approved medical users, was not negatively impacted.

In fact, company president Brent Zettl says a one-year extension of 
the contract to grow the marijuana at a secure underground growth 
chamber located in a Flin Flon mine workings was signed Oct. 1. It 
actually calls for a doubling of the volume for the coming year and 
more revenue for his company.

"At this stage of the game we're supplying about 300 to 325 people on 
a monthly basis who have an exemption for medicinal purposes who have 
a medical condition that grants them that exemption."

The number of patients gaining that exemption is growing so the legal 
medical marijuana program is now close to running out of supply, he said.

"We're shipping out somewhere between 32 and 35 kilograms a month and 
we currently produce about 20," he said.
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