On Wednesday evening, a hidden Australian marijuana facility in Mildura, Victoria revealed its location after red-spectrum LED lights from the facility turned the night sky pink.
The red LED lights are used to encourage plant growth, and are usually hidden behind blackout curtains. On Wednesday evening, the curtains were mistakenly left open, sending a signal that could be seen for miles around and exposing the previously-undisclosed location of the marijuana facility.
“I was driving home, and it was dark, and I noticed a very unusual, quite large pink glow. I thought, that is very strange. My first thought was there has to be a logical reason for this,” said Anne Webster, a lawmaker who represents the area in Australia’s Parliament.
Cann Group, the cannabis research and production company that owns the facility, was the first corporation to receive a license to conduct cannabis research after the cultivation, research, and manufacturing of medical marijuana was legalized in Australia in 2016.
The company received a $1.4 million grant from the Victoria state government. Some part of this money was used to construct and develop the commercial marijuana facility that was exposed in the LED light incident on Wednesday.
The marijuana industry “is providing jobs, and this is only the tip of the iceberg because it has quite a future for growth,” said Webster, who has toured the Cann facility.
According to Fresh Leaf Analytics, 70,000 Australians use medical marijuana for relief from pain, anxiety, and sleep issues, bringing in an estimated $160 million in 2021. Prescriptions for medical marijuana have shot up over the past two years, which studies have attributed to the stress of the pandemic and lockdown.
“We’ve resumed normal transmission but it definitely caught everyone’s attention in the meantime,” Crock, the Cann Group’s chief executive, said of Wednesday’s incident. “Any publicity is good publicity.”
Link to article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/23/australia-mildura-medical-marijuana-pink-sky/
The red LED lights are used to encourage plant growth, and are usually hidden behind blackout curtains. On Wednesday evening, the curtains were mistakenly left open, sending a signal that could be seen for miles around and exposing the previously-undisclosed location of the marijuana facility.
“I was driving home, and it was dark, and I noticed a very unusual, quite large pink glow. I thought, that is very strange. My first thought was there has to be a logical reason for this,” said Anne Webster, a lawmaker who represents the area in Australia’s Parliament.
Cann Group, the cannabis research and production company that owns the facility, was the first corporation to receive a license to conduct cannabis research after the cultivation, research, and manufacturing of medical marijuana was legalized in Australia in 2016.
The company received a $1.4 million grant from the Victoria state government. Some part of this money was used to construct and develop the commercial marijuana facility that was exposed in the LED light incident on Wednesday.
The marijuana industry “is providing jobs, and this is only the tip of the iceberg because it has quite a future for growth,” said Webster, who has toured the Cann facility.
According to Fresh Leaf Analytics, 70,000 Australians use medical marijuana for relief from pain, anxiety, and sleep issues, bringing in an estimated $160 million in 2021. Prescriptions for medical marijuana have shot up over the past two years, which studies have attributed to the stress of the pandemic and lockdown.
“We’ve resumed normal transmission but it definitely caught everyone’s attention in the meantime,” Crock, the Cann Group’s chief executive, said of Wednesday’s incident. “Any publicity is good publicity.”
Link to article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/23/australia-mildura-medical-marijuana-pink-sky/
