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NP says police seize Tweed's Kelowna pot shipment
2014-04-07 07:01 ET - In the News
The National Post reports in its Saturday edition Tweed Marijuana became the first publicly traded medical pot company in Canada on Friday, but behind the scenes it had a run-in with the law. Postmedia's Douglas Quan writes that last Monday, the Ontario company was hoping to receive a shipment of medical marijuana products acquired from B.C. growers who had previously been licensed to grow their marijuana at home. Even though the company had received Health Canada's approval to import such products, the RCMP ended up seizing it at the Kelowna airport. "We felt everything was done absolutely correctly," Tweed chairman Bruce Linton said from the company's office in Smiths Falls. "When you call police to say, 'Come look at this,' you believe you have everything in order." The case seems to highlight continuing confusion around the old legal regime, which allowed licensees to grow medical pot in their basements, and the new regime, which restricts production to commercial growers, such as Tweed. As of Friday, the company -- one of 12 licensed so far in Canada -- had still not received an explanation for the seizure, Mr. Linton said. Health Canada confirmed Friday that Tweed received the go-ahead