Will Niagara become a destination for more than Niagara Falls and wineries? Westbrook Floral sold the greenhouses on the South Service Road at Bartlett last year to a cannabis company. It has been building ever since - greenhouses, warehouses, all kinds of buildings. So the sign was up yesterday - hiring. The company is Up Cannabis. Are you a Quality Assurance associate? A Cannabis greenhouse worker? Packaging technician? Health and safety coordinator? What about VP Operations? There are a lot of jobs for cannabis-related workers. Up Cannabis seems to have locations in Hamilton, Beamsville, Grimsby,
There is almost nothing on the Up Cannabis website. Search, shipping, contact, terms, privacy, careers are the headings. One has to join the online community to receive any information about products. This is due to the age restriction.
I wonder if garden clubs and horticultural societies will include this topic in their speaker series? Growing Marijuana in the garden. Or perhaps this summer's off-site visit will be to the new UP Cannabis facility. My preference is for the flower-growing facilities like the COSMIC orchid greenhouses. The challenge for visits to these places is that they use natural pesticides and don't want any external contaminants brought in.
Greenhousecanada.com has great headlines that outline what's happening - and has an article on a natural pest control beetle that is relevant to cannabis growing. In addition, they indicate that we can expect shortages of some floral crops as flower growers sell/sold their facilities to cannabis growers. More shortages may be on the way. In B.C. acreage of vegetable production has decreased because of conversion to cannabis. So could we in Niagara be seeing fields of cannabis this summer? Driving along the QEW or the blossom trail could turn out be an expanding experience.
Our picture today is another image of the hippopotamus at the Disney World in Florida.
We in Canada are on the forefront of recreation and play. Jack's play options expanded in Canada just a month ago with the legalization of recreational cannabis. I hadn't realized we as a country were the most in need of more play options and that we must have a record deficiency level of play.
The latest from the CBC yesterday was on the topic of what is termed 'edibles'. This expression means food with cannabis in it. Wikipedia tells me that most edibles contain a significant amount of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol). The medical edibles contain a negligible amount of THC, so would not be dual-purpose.
The edibles story starts in the Indian subcontinent, where people prepared food and drinks with 'bhang' for thousands of years - for spiritual and medicinal purposes. The Hindu spring festival of Holi is known for this. We skip ahead to The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook in 1954 with its famous 'hash brownies'. 'Space cakes' are another recent tradition.
But our modern day edibles seem to be far beyond this. I went to a site - leafy.ca - to find out more and there are pictures and pictures of candy - the first is a pink and green sugar candy. So I continued on to budderweeds.com and the pictures there are of candy as well.
Here are a few of the names: gummy blooms, green apple rings, giant sour jack n' cola, berry good slices, all natural pistachio crunch, maple syrup leafs, berry good slices...All good looking candy with attractive names.
The CBC topic yesterday was the warning about children consuming edibles - that there was an increase in children consuming edibles in Colorado when cannabis became legal there. So I guess the expression "Don't take candy from strangers" has more significance and weight than ever.
We have some Sarasota ocean shore abstracts today.
