Plants in the ground within six months and cannabis products on shelves by this time next year are the goals of the owners and operators of one of the companies now approved for medical cannabis cultivation in West Virginia.
“We’re going to have probably a month or so finalizing the design and then the construction process will be about three to four months,” said Matt Lawson-Baker, one of the owners of Armory Pharmaceutical, based in Upshur County, of the company’s timeline. Their planned growing site is indoors at the old armory on Route 20 in Buckhannon which is already being used for hemp manufacturing and will be transformed into a full-scale pharmaceutical development site.
“For West Virginia, we’ve partnered with a group of doctors and scientists to use the facility as an opportunity to produce medicines and really bridge the gap between aspirin and opiates,” Lawson-Baker said. “We really want to provide an alternative to opiates and we want to use this facility as the place to do our trials.”
Armory Pharmaceutical is one of ten companies recently awarded permits through the West Virginia Office of Medical Cannabis in the state Department of Health and Human Resources Bureau for Public Health to grow cannabis plants for medical uses.
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