GOOD TIME TO BE A ‘CANNA-PRENEUR’

Meet Mary. She’s four feet tall, is very low-maintenance, looks like a work of art in your living room, and will produce a full-grown pot plant out of a seed within weeks.

Also known as an “automated growing system,” Mary, which will retail for $499, is just one of the new products being engineered and marketed in anticipation of cannabis legalization in October, by “cannapreneurs” eager to cash in on green profits.

At CannabisFest in Montreal last week — part of the annual Startup Festival in the city held at Parc Dieppe (formerly Parc de la Cité-duHavre) — Mary’s creator, Frank Qin, was one of several to pitch his new invention to potential investors.

The North American market for cannabis is projected to be worth $47.3 billion by 2027.

Also on display:

Otorize — an app-based cognitive

■ test for impairment

Bluhen Dosing Solutions — to accurately

■ dose your medical marijuana and track it over time — like a Keurig does for coffee, and sold with smartphone app

Flow Filters — and a smaller Flow

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Pen for individual use — that use biomass materials to get rid of the smell of marijuana either during cultivation or consumption, in homes or cafés.