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US (VA): MMJ facility taking shape on the Southside

With a state-mandated deadline approaching, the backers of one of the state’s first medical marijuana facilities are kicking construction into high gear.

Green Leaf Medical of Virginia, which last year was awarded a coveted license from the Virginia Board of Pharmacy to open one of only five medical cannabidiol processing operations statewide, expects to complete the first phase of its 82,000-square-foot complex at 2804 Decatur St. in the city’s Southside by year-end.

“We’re narrowing in. We expect to get our certificate of occupancy sometime in December,” said Green Leaf CEO Philip Goldberg, who’s leading the local effort alongside Virginia Pharmaceutical Processors, a group including Angel Papa, Ausrine Kuktelionyte and Sunita Gupta, who helped Green Leaf with the application, site selection and lining up contractors.

The facility is being built in two phases, both of which will include growing, extraction and selling CBD. Phase two is set to be completed in March 2020 and the decision to break it into phases was done to help the company get to market as quickly as possible, Goldberg said

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