Medical marijuana plants growing in Alabama under careful conditions, tight security

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Although a full launch of Alabama's medical cannabis industry is still stalled in court, companies are now licensed to grow the plants that will be used to make the products.

Some of the first steps in Alabama’s fledgling medical cannabis industry are taking place inside a building behind high security fences, cameras, and warning signs at the CRC of Alabama cultivation facility in the tiny town of Goshen.

While the full launch of Alabama’s medical cannabis industry is snarled in litigation, CRC of Alabama and six other companiesto grow the plants that will produce gummies, capsules, pills, tinctures, and other products to help patients with chronic pain, the harsh effects of cancer treatment, seizures, muscle spasms, PTSD, depression, panic disorder, and other conditions and symptoms.

“We have people here 24/7 to look after things at night,” Reeves said. “I can be in Troy or wherever I am and pull up my phone, look at the videos on my phone, and see if there’s anything wrong.” The vegetative room, bright and clean, is almost wall-to-wall plants. Large fans keep the air moving. Humidifiers and de-humidifiers activate when needed to keep the humidity at the optimum level. The LED, photo bio lights that are on 18 hours a day are custom made for CRC. In fact, all the equipment is custom made, according to chief operations officer Rob Levy, who has built medical cannabis cultivating facilities in 20 states.

There are about 15 varieties of cannabis in the vegetative room, with names such as spice, garlic butter, orange cream pop, and hella jelly.The flowering room, next to the vegetative room, does not have any plants yet but has some of the equipment essential for the plants in all three rooms. “When you think about all the things that can go wrong, naturally they will. So being prepared for all those things, I think, is the thing that people don’t really talk about when you’re talking about growing plants. You think it’s just a garden and you water it, and it grows. Here there’s a lot more level of infrastructure and redundancy that has to support the growth over a period of time.”

 

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