Health Dep’t vs Poppy Farm

An Alberta company singled out by Health Canada says it will attempt to overturn a federal ban on commercial production of medicinal opium poppy. API Labs Inc. of Lethbridge said it’s hired an Ottawa lobbyist to press the case for poppy in the name of agricultural diversification: “We expected the federal government would support innovation and small business”.

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