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‘There’s No Opposition Now’: How a Quiet Canadian Town Became a World Leader in Growing Cannabis

Smiths Falls, Ontario, is home to Canopy Growth Corp.

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The musky aroma hits you from the car park at the headquarters of Canopy Growth, the world’s largest cannabis company.

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Stacey Lyon
Canopy Growth's Smiths Falls, Ont., facility.

Inside this nondescript warehouse – an abandoned Hershey’s chocolate factory in Smiths Falls, Canada – ... myriad rooms teem with row upon row of bushy marijuana plants at various stages of maturity, under intense lamplight, swaying in the breeze of dozens of fans.

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A staff member wheels past crates full of pre-rolled joints in their hundreds. Another trolley holds 25 large bags of high-grade dried cannabis bud, a kilogram each, with a combined value of roughly C$250,000 (£150,000).

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If anyone is the Willy Wonka of weed, it’s Canopy Growth’s co-chief executive, Bruce Linton.

Talking a mile a minute, his eyes gleam as he walks the halls of a facility that cost C$150m to build.

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