Inside the hermetically sealed, temperature-controlled, licensed greenhouse, the weed is frosted, purple and spongy; clumps of bud the size of a baby’s fist with trichomes practically dripping from the edge of the 8,000 plants.
Close your eyes and you can envision Woodstock, or at least a cannabis field in Kelowna; the smell hanging so thickly in the air you might think the odour alone could get you high (it can’t).
This cannabis, however, will never be sold on Canadian soil, and ZenKai’s export business is part of a new Canadian pipeline bolstering the value of legal Canadian weed companies. After bonanza market caps and equally steep stock-price fall-offs, Canadian marijuana has a new cash generator: exporting the pot to less mature legal markets where there’s more demand for our weed.
ZenKai, a Canadian medical cannabis company, doesn’t have a licence to grow weed, purchasing cannabis from licensed…