Cannabis kingmaker Bruce Linton, who was forced from his job at the top of Canopy Growth this summer, will lead the U.S. expansion of the Hamilton-based Gage brand of high-THC pot products.
The move will install Linton as the executive chair of a company called Gage Growth focused on expanding in Michigan. The first of nine proposed Gage stores across the state opened last week near Detroit's 8-Mile Road.
Gage is the recreational cannabis brand of Hamilton-based Radicle Cannabis, formed by Ziad Reda and family who founded the Big Bee Convenience chain.
Radicle's 25,000-square-foot licensed hydroponic grow operation at Gage Avenue North and Beach Road was recently approved to expand to 40,000 square feet with an expected yield of 6,000 kg for both medical and recreational products.
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