Others were looking for an explanation.
“I was driving home and it was dark and I saw a very unusual, quite large pink glow,” said Anne Webster, an MP who represents the area in the Australian parliament. “I thought it was very strange. My first thought was that there must be a logical reason for this.”
In fact, a glow from a medical cannabis facility on the outskirts of Mildura accidentally revealed its previously undisclosed location while testing LED lights reflecting off a cloudy night sky. 56,000 inhabitants.
While investigating the source of the hot pink light, the facility’s ranger realized it was attracting attention around Mildura, about 340 miles northwest of Melbourne.
“He went out in the evening and saw a flash and several cars stopped to see where it was coming from,” said Peter Crock, chief executive of the Cann Group, the cannabis research and production company behind the object. he said Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The company typically uses black curtains to hide the red-spectrum LED lights used to promote plant growth. But on Wednesday, the curtains remained open for a while, sending out a Bat-Signal that was visible for miles around the facility in south-east Victoria.
In 2016, Australia legalized the cultivation, research and production of medical marijuana. Today, about 70,000 Australians turn to medical marijuana for help, generating an estimated $160 million in 2021. according to to Fresh Leaf Analytics, a cannabis market research company. Australians use medical marijuana mainly for pain, anxiety and sleep problems by 2022. to learn Published in Frontiers of Pharmacology.
Prescriptions have soared over the past two years, partly attributed to the “mental health burden” of Australia’s coronavirus containment restrictions, the study said. The country imposed one of the strictest bans in the world before vaccinating 95 percent of its adult population.
Cann Group was the first company licensed by Australia to conduct cannabis research. Victoria received a $1.4 million grant from the state government, part of which was used to develop a commercial medical cannabis facility at a location undisclosed until this week’s lighting event. The Mildura facility, built on the site of a former juice factory, harvested its first batch earlier this month.
Mildura is known as a major grape producer supplying wineries in the region. But his involvement in cannabis production is new.
“It’s providing jobs and that’s just the tip of the iceberg because there’s plenty of future for growth,” said Rep. Webster, who toured the Cann facility.
“We’ve restored normal transmission, but in the meantime it definitely caught everyone’s attention,” Cann CEO Crock said of Wednesday’s incident. “Any publicity is good publicity.”
