Flin Flon, Manitoba

Flin Flon, Manitoba-Saskatchewan (pop. 7243) is a Canadian mining city on the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border. It is located at {{coor dm|54|46|N|101|51|W|}}.

Marijuana Production

Flin Flon gained international notoriety in 2002 when the Government of Canada awarded a four-year contract to a Saskatoon company for the production of Medicinal Marijuana.

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Prairie Plant Systems is based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and has used an inactive underground copper/zinc drift owned by the Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company to produce approximately 400 kilograms of Medicinal Marijuana annually. The entire operation is several hundred meters underground for security reasons.

Related Topics:
Prairie Plant Systems - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company

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Medicinal Marijuana is only available in Canada with a doctor's prescription. Users of Medicinal Marijuana in Canada must agree to provide information to Health Canada for research purposes.

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Since the original stock of Marijuana seeds were obtained from RCMP drug raids, there was some lack of consistency in the early crops of Medicinal Marijuana. After selective use of seeds from the first crop, subsequent generations have shown to have a more consistent quality.

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