East Coast organic marijuana producer ramps up to serve vast legalized market
Denis Arsenault hosted an important visitor the other day at his Moncton offices, a moment that revealed much about his company's grand ambitions.
Arsenault is CEO of OrganiGram, producer of Canada's only organic medical marijuana, and the only licensed grower east of Ontario.
His visitor was Brian Gallant, the boyish, 33-year-old premier of New Brunswick, who came to offer wage subsidies to help the company expand.
Arsenault, whose company aims to get a running start on a legalized recreational marijuana market, did not miss the irony of Gallant's visit.
The premier is supporting marijuana production just 30 years after one of his predecessors, Richard Hatfield, was arrested and put on trial for marijuana possession.
"It's clear society has evolved," said Arsenault, a tall, clean-cut executive who looks like he would be comfortable in any corporate boardroom in the country. "Seventy to eighty per cent of the Canadian population is in...
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