From Canadian papers, "Health Canada has given Alternative Medical Solutions the green light to finish work on its medical marijuana facility in Hanover."
"The facility in Hanover includes 12 foot high fences, security guards, a hundred video cameras and a large vault where the marijuana products will be stored."
"We believe we're going to create a facility that is not only state of the art, but it is going to be the model for those who are going to want to join the industry in other communities," Barber said. "When (Health Canada sees) our facility, it will not only meet the standards that are changing every day and going up, we're going to surpass them."
Barber described the future building as a combination of a hospital and a medical lab in terms of cleanliness and modernity.
Barber said the company had begun discussions with other municipalities before reaching out to Hanover. In those talks, the AMS facility was discussed, as was the company's potential role in those different communities.
AMS is made up primarily of businessmen with experience in the Hamilton region, with Barber, Ray Roberston, John Ciotti and Joseph Groleau all hailing from the Steel City. While the company-provided biographies on Barber, Ciotti and Groleau detailed their business background, Robertson's dealt with his personal experience with medical marijuana, as the drug has been instrumental in improving his wife's quality of life while battling Crohn's Disease.
Robertson and Ciotti will be involved in the cultivation of the product once AMS receives its licence from Health Canada. The first plants will be clones from growth in British Columbia, to speed up the first harvest.
As well, they have formed partnerships will marijuana producers in the United States to refine best practices for growing the product in the factory setting.