Big news out of Canada....
GrowLife and CEN Biotech Announce Collaboration on the World's Largest and Most Advanced Legal Cannabis Production Facility
New Canadian Facility Capable of Producing Up to 1.3 Million Pounds of Medical Marijuana Annually
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Jan. 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- GrowLife, Inc. (OTCBB: PHOT), a diversified company operating in the legal cannabis industry which develops, markets and deploys products and services of legal cannabis, is pleased to announce that Organic Growth International, LLC ("OGI"), its previously announced joint venture with CANX USA, LLC, has entered into a series of agreements with CEN Biotech, Inc., subject to the approval of the GrowLife Board of Directors. GrowLife currently has a 45% ownership interest in OGI, with conditions under which it can gain majority interest.
CEN Biotech, working under the inspection and authority of Health Canada, has completed the extraordinary governmental processes in Canada to receive approval to begin constructing their state of the art medical marijuana facility in the City of Lakeshore, Ontario, Canada. The facility has undergone extensive vetting by authorities to ensure strict compliance and facility security requirements of Canadian Government and provincial requirements in Canada. Importantly, the facility has been graciously embraced by the town of Lakeshore and the Windsor Essex Economic Development Authorities as a most desirable source of jobs and economic activity for this highly agricultural region. This production facility is expected to have the capacity to produce up to 1.3 million pounds of dried medical marijuana annually, and the total may include capacity that is set aside for import and export. While facility construction has commenced, as of the date of this release CEN Biotech has to next secure the final and formal permissions to grow, harvest, package, and sell medical marijuana in Canada or for export.