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Majoring in Mary Jane

• Photo by Tara Walton

  Mark Zekulin, the president of Canopy Growth, the parent company of Tweed Farms, is leading the charge on an educational partnership with Niagara College which will give future students and cannabis farmers hands-on experience at the facility.

• Tweed Farms was originally built in the 1990s and grew produce such as tomatoes, cucumbers and eggplants before being converted to a cannabis farm. Tweed shipped its first marijuana to medical patients in 2014.

• Trimmings from cannabis plants are collected by one of the employees at Tweed Farms, a soon-to-be one-million-squarefoot greenhouse facility in Niagara-on-the-Lake.