Prairie Plant Systems is into underground pot production.

What's even more surprising, the police are in on the action.

In fact, the federal government is paying Prairie Plant Systems almost $6 million to grow marijuana.

Is this a massive conspiracy to deride Canada's drug laws?

No.

Health Canada has awarded the Saskatoon-based company a five-year contract to produce marijuana as a pharmaceutical.

Grown and processed to exacting standards, some of the marijuana will be supplied to a select list of people suffering debilitating illness.

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