An application to build the island's first medicinal cannabis production facility has been unanimously approved by the planning committee.
The purpose-built production facility and headquarters for Grow Lab Organics is to be constructed on the Ronaldsway industrial estate, just to the west of Ronaldsway Aircraft Factory (23/00239/B).
In June 2022 island-based Grow Lab Organics became the first company in the Isle of Man to secure a licence from the Gambling Supervision Commission to grow and export medicinal cannabis commercially.
An estimated 1.8 million people across the British Isles are using cannabis sourced from the illicit market to treat medical conditions. Medicinal cannabis was legalized in the UK in November 2018.
Read more at Isle of Man Today