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Cannabis company growing jobs
The Puro team at the site of their cannabis growing operation up the Waihopai Valley. Photo: Supplied.
Matt Brown Reporter
matt@marlboroughmedia.co.nz
Marlborough’s fledgling marijuana industry could inject millions of dollars and hundreds of jobs into the region in its first year.
Bosses at Medical cannabis firm Puro have revealed growing the crop could bring in about $60 million dollars in the next two years. It could also create more than 300 jobs once established, with the first intake of staff set to start in
October. Puro managing director Tim Aldridge says the business will also create other jobs as it gets underway. “Puro has the capacity to create in excess of 300 jobs once our long-term facilities are up and
running, most of these will be at the Kaikōura site. On top of this are the indirect jobs and construction employment that our infrastructure and development project will create,” he says. Puro ran a successful crowdfunding campaign last year, rais-
ing $4million to establish the medicinal cannabis operation. The company intends to grow medicinal cannabis in greenhouses in the Waihopai Valley and high-CBD (cannabidiol)
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