Pubdate: Mon, 07 Apr 2014
Source: Windsor Star (CN ON)
Page: A5
Copyright: 2014 The Windsor Star
Contact:  http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/501
Author: Douglas Quan

MEDICAL POT SHIPMENTS SEIZED AT B.C. AIRPORT

Another member of Canada's fledgling medical-marijuana industry had a
shipment of pot products seized at a B.C. airport last week.

Toronto-based Mettrum Ltd. had acquired medical-marijuana products
from B.C. growers and planned to transport the products to Ontario
last Monday, spokesman Keelan Green told Postmedia News Sunday.

Federal regulators with Health Canada had signed off on the
transaction, Green said. "We don't do anything without Health Canada
approval."

Yet, for reasons that have not been made clear to the company, RCMP
officials seized the products at the Kelowna International Airport.

Green said the company isn't overly upset about the seizure - it's
just a "bit of a delay" and "one of those things," he said, chalking
it up to confusion over the transition from the old regulatory regime
to the new one. "We don't foresee a problem. ... The RCMP is doing their
job. Health Canada is doing their job," he said.

Green said it was "coincidence" that a competitor, Tweed Marijuana
Inc., of Smiths Falls, Ont., had a shipment of medical marijuana
products seized the same day at the same airport.

The company - the first publicly traded medical pot company in Canada
- - felt it had done everything "absolutely correctly" and had invited
the Mounties to inspect the shipment, Tweed chairman Bruce Linton said
Friday.

RCMP officials did not respond to a request Sunday for comment. On
Friday, B.C. spokesman Sgt. Duncan Pound said police typically do not
confirm or deny investigations unless there is a specific need or
until charges are laid.

Green said the company's CEO, Michael Haines, was at the Kelowna
airport when the RCMP inspection took place but was couldn't comment
Sunday.  
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