Carol is a federally-licensed medical marijuana grower in Vancouver, Canada—one of nearly 30,000 Canadians given licenses to grow or possess medical marijuana. But now that’s all coming to an end.
Carol and many other licensed marijuana growers are victims of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservative Party.
The Harper government is putting an end to the federal program that benefits Carol and other medical marijuana growers, replacing it with a program that only allows corporations to grow Canadian medical marijuana.
Patients like Carol, who bought HID ballasts and bulbs, hydroponics nutrients, C02 generators, and other marijuana growing supplies, will shut down their marijuana gardens—or face mandatory minimum prison sentences if they get caught growing.
If they shut down their marijuana grow rooms, they have to buy street marijuana, or corporate-grown marijuana that’s low-quality, low-potency, high-priced, not tailored for their specific medical needs.
Canadian hydroponics manufacturer Advanced Nutrients is the only hydroponics company trying to stop the Canadian government’s attack on individual marijuana growers and patients.
They’re helping constitutional lawyer John Conroy, who says he’ll file a lawsuit to prove that new Health Canada “Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations” violate Canada’s constitution.
Conroy says corporate growers will produce low-grade marijuana while reaping $1.5 billion in annual marijuana retail sales that’ll result if individuals are prevented from growing their own buds.
BigMike Straumietis, one of the founders of hydroponics manufacturer Advanced Nutrients, says he’s “deeply saddened” by the government’s policies…and by the lack of activism from other members of the hydroponics manufacturing industry.
Straumietis says his biggest concern is the harm to patients.