Smiths Falls police raided the headquarters of Carasel Harvest Supply Corporation on 4 August 2004, seizing 221 marijuana plants worth about $220,000, the largest drug seizure in the town force's history. The company had begun growing to supply 30 licensed medicinal users before Health Canada granted it a licence.
🇨🇦 41 Centre Street (former Canadian Tire store), Smiths Falls, Ontario · Ontario, Canada
Smiths Falls police raided the headquarters of Carasel Harvest Supply Corporation, a medicinal marijuana company operating from a former Canadian Tire store at 41 Centre Street, on Wednesday 4 August 2004.[1][2][3]Officers seized 221 marijuana plants with an estimated street value of about $220,000, the largest drug seizure the town’s police force had ever made.[1][2][4]
The company had set up shop in February and begun growing to supply chronically ill patients as quickly as possible, though its Health Canada licence was still pending.[1][3]Police said they had known of the company’s plans but not that growing was under way, learning of it from media reports after founder Samantha Klinck told a council committee the plants were already growing.[1][2]
The raid came a day after 30 licensed medicinal users filed a federal court challenge asking that Carasel be licensed to supply them with Ontario-grown marijuana.[1][2]No charges were laid immediately; police said they would meet federal Crown attorneys first, and the town council later refused the company’s greenhouse rezoning request.[2][3][5]
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