Inside One of Australia’s Biggest Legal Weed Farms

In the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales, outside a town named Armidale, is a secret installation for growing medicinal cannabis. And not just any medicinal cannabis. While the entire Australian industry is centred around tinctures and pills, this is the country’s first marijuana “flower” farm, which is industry speak for bud. Here they grow a product that’s basically the same as what your dealer sells, except that it’s cultivated to exacting specifications and shipped in packaging that wouldn’t look out of place at your local pharmacy.

Ostensibly these “flowers” fill a hole in Australia’s medicinal market, but as the company’s owners freely admit, they’re also providing the nation’s stoners with an opportunity…