After months of waiting, a Liverpool based cannabis producer now has the green light from Health Canada to sell their product on the medical and recreational markets.
Aqualitas CEO Myrna Gillis says they’ll have a soft launch of their medical product next week and their recreational brand – Reef – should be available for retail sale in May.
“First provincial retail we will go into is the NSLC and that will be under our brand Reef, and we’re really excited about launching, obviously in Nova Scotia, our home province.”
Gillis says given the demand on cannabis through the liquor corporation, they are expecting to fill a large order for them.
All of Reef’s strains will have ocean themed names.
“We have one that is a relatively even blend of CBD and THC we call Ebb and Flow and our other even brand is called Even Keel and we’ll have a White Shark as well.”
Aqualitas employs 50 people and are working on an expansion of the plant now, mostly to accomodate for the packaging required by NSLC and Health Canada.
Since moving into the Port Mersey Commercial Park, which is the former Bowater paper mill site, there’s been lots of buzz about the company and employment numbers.
Not that Gillis minds.
She says they employ quite a few former mill employees and are pleased to be creating more jobs in Liverpool after the loss of the mill.
With this announcement, Aqualitas also joins the ranks of five out of over 160 Canadian cannabis producers that produce organic certified product.
They are also Canada’s first Clean Green Certified cannabis producer.
The company uses a unique aquaponics (hydroponics and aquaculture combined) process to grow their plants.
Fish and plants are grown together in an integrated system where the plants filter the water and the fish waste is used to feed the plants.
Story by Brittany Wentzell
Twitter: @BrittWentzell
Email: wentzell.brittany@radioabl.ca
