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More than 100 businesses are hoping to compete for the right to grow marijuana in Uruguay’s newly legalized pot market. Drug secretary Julio Calzada told The Associated Press in May that the government can satisfy demand in the legal pot market by licensing up to six growers to cultivate marijuana on plots no larger than 5 acres (2 hectares). ¹

I am a strong believer in looking to the past to guide your future. It is by learning from mistakes that we improve. And the mistakes don't just have to be our own. Classic tales of corporations gone wrong can be a powerful lesson to us all. So if you want to run your greenhouse operation in the ground follow these steps:

In many ways, Marion Albaum of Toronto, 38, is your typical Canadian mom. She cheers at her son’s minor league hockey games and creates brightly coloured cakes for her daughter’s sleepover parties. Photos of anniversary dinners and birthdays plaster her Facebook page. Not pictured are the nights she spends in hospital with a feeding tube and hovering team of nurses and doctors nearby.

Good news for Plant Breeders, The Canadian Food Inspection Agency which administers the Plant Breeders' Rights Act (1990) and the regulations that provide legal protection to plant breeders for new plant varieties, has accepted its first application for a Cannabis Strain. Though the application was submitted in December 2013 it was 6 months before it was published. Big C, as it is called (Botannical Name: Cannabis sativa subsp. Indica) has a long way to go before rights may be granted. The process involves testing and plant trials, and site examinations, and the breeder must be able to show that the variety is new, and different from all other varieties. It must be uniform across all plants bred from the same stock and hold its genetic integrity through successive generations which takes time to prove.