The hope of bringing a medical marijuana facility to Drumbo is still months away from completion.
DRUMBO - Plans are still in the works to bring a medical marijuana facility to Drumbo.
Back in February, Canadian Medical Marijuana Centre President Andrew Burns submitted a letter of intent to Blandford Blenheim council informing them he wanted to bring a facility to Oxford Road 29.
Since that time, Burns says he has been working to complete the steps required by Health Canada and believes he's about 95 percent of the way through the checklist for licensing.
"You set up a proposal, they at some point approve it, and say go ahead build this, send you a letter to that effect. Great. You build it. When you're done building it, we will come and inspect it and then we will write the licence is basically the nature of the process, the bureaucratic process, you know, the birth of this market."
"Right now I am taking training for quality assurance so they can sort of have verification that I can set up and maintain a quality assurance program that's in compliance."
Burns says at this point, he's looking to make the facility 5-6 thousand square feet.
"The reality of it is, because of the level of quality assurance that we need to do, it looks very much like a pharmaceutical production type cleanliness, protocol structure if that makes sense. My plan is really, if it works for one barn, you could do it for two then you are missing the cross contamination risk factors by making them holey separate from each other."
Burns says he picked Drumbo because his facility would be constructed on a family farm.
He says once he gets the green light from Health Canada he could have the facility built from scratch within six months, with product able to be shipped 6 months to one year after that.
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