Cannabis farm tours could be Canada's unique twist on popular wine tours with the potential to be a huge tourist attraction, industry experts say. But regulatory hurdles still need to be overcome for the budding industry to fully bloom. The most crucial one? While wine tours allow visitors to imbibe, tourers of cannabis farms cannot consume the product at any point.
One expert in northwest Ontario who spoke to Yahoo Canada says cannabis farm tours have the potential to become huge tourist attractions for Canada, one of the first countries in the world to legalize cannabis. But this major limitation — consumption-free tours — is due to strict provincial regulations around consumption spaces.
Reverend Kelly, the director of events for the Canadian Cannabis Tourism Alliance and a cannabis entrepreneur, told Yahoo Canada that cannabis farm tours can give the consumer a much more intimate knowledge of the plant that can be rewarding in its own right while combatting the still lingering stigma of cannabis.
"(A farm tour) is just such a beautiful model because it gives the customer or patient a way to be able to see how their medicine is grown," she said. "We're honouring where the plant comes from, where the plant is grown, what soil is being used, what minerals, what water is being used, who is cultivating it… It's just so beautiful to be able to understand that."
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