Partners target exports

Aotearoa’s largest medicinal cannabis grower, Puro, has teamed up with Nelson company Medical Kiwi to export medical cannabis products to Europe. Puro will provide Medical Kiwi with 5 tonnes of cannabis flower in the first year, with the volume increasing in subsequent years. The flower will be dried at Medical Kiwi’s Christchurch drying plant and sales should commence next year. In April, Marlborough-based Puro received a

$13 million government grant to bolster the organic medicinal cannabis industry. Puro executive chairperson Tim Aldridge said the partnership was a good match of Puro’s cultivation and plant genetics expertise and Medical Kiwi’s processing capacity and European customer relationships.