Quality Assurance for Medical Cannabis - Things to keep in mind for better Marijuana Production

Hi! This is Nirban, marketing person of Pipe Dreemz Incorporation. Today I am going to discuss the things that are important while you are producing marijuana for patients you require to obey the rules, the terms, conditions so that you could maintain the quality of marijuana. Let me tell you an introduction before we jump into the quality check topic.

Marijuana (or cannabis or weed or ganja) has lots of medical benefits. Though it is considered a drug around the world, still the it could cure lots of diseases like following –

1. It can be used to treat Glaucoma.
2. It may help reverse the carcinogenic effects of tobacco and improve lung health.
3. It can help control epileptic seizures.
4. It also decreases the symptoms of a severe seizure disorder known as Dravet's Syndrome.
5. A chemical found in marijuana stops cancer from spreading.
6. It may decrease anxiety.
7. THC slows the progression of Alzheimer's disease.
8. The drug eases the pain of Multiple Sclerosis.
9. Other types of muscle spasms could be helped too.
10. It lessens side-effects from treating hepatitis C and increases treatment effectiveness.
11. Marijuana treats inflammatory bowel diseases.
12. It keeps you skinny and helps your metabolism.
13. While not really a health benefit, marijuana spurs creativity in the brain.
14. Marijuana might be able to eliminate Chron's diseases
15. Pot soothes tremors for people with Parkinson's disease
16. Marijuana helps veterans suffering from PTSD.
17. Marijuana protects the brain after a stroke
18. Weed reduces some of the awful pain and nausea from chemo, and appetite.

After years of fighting with the govt. now health Canada and united states have approved marijuana uses to patients and only those patients who gonna need it. They have approved the production of marijuana as a limited versions and limited quantities as well. You can only do production of dried marijuana and oil form marijuana( cannabis oil form) and then you will be able to ship , import , export , donate cannabis to any person( Who is authorized to receive marijuana ) and or to any patient( who gonna need it to cure disease) and  any organization who will do its fair uses or legal uses as well. However, to do better quality of marijuana production as a business, one must require managing quality control. After 2016 and onwards health Canada replaced the old MMPR (Marijuana for medical purpose resolutions) rules and placed the all new ACMPR( access to cannabis for medical purpose resolutions) and added terms and conditions of what it requires to get qualify the marijuana application process. Once you submitted the application does not mean you will be approved by health Canada. They will check your application and they will also thoroughly read your application and answers of the questions given by them. Health Canada also requires white papers on infrastructure build up that you have in your compound for marijuana production. Pipe dreemz help clients to win this application. In this application process they help clients so that farmers could get their marijuana application form health Canada. We help clients to provide answers of the questions asked by health Canada.

At pipe dreemz we not only provide marijuana application process, we also provide the following services as well –

1. Application Preparation
2. Application Review
3. Application Submission
4. Talent Acquisition and Training
5. Site selection and Planning
6. Facility Design & Planning
7. Preparation of facility plans and drawings
8. Detailed Budget, including Hydro Requirements & Costs
9. General Contractor Oversight & Equipment Supplier Agreements
10. Facility Build-Outs
11. Production
12. Grow Room Design & Garden Consulting
13. Laboratory Equipment procurement
14. Planning, procurement and oversight for Systems Installation including HVAC, Electrical and Fertigation
15. Production Planning
16. Facility Planning
17. Security Planning and Review
18. Technology Plan
19. Detailed Hydro Requirements and Costs
20. Detailed Budget
21. General Contractor Oversight
22. Equipment Supplier Agreements
23. Facility Build Out
24. Grow Room Design
25. Pre-Inspection services

Pipe Dreemz also provides the Quality control services so that you are able to produce high quality marijuana and there will be no dispute or no legal question of your production. Pipe Dreemz will help you to win this game for you. There are lots of things that doctors will not tell you always. There are lots of things that are not written in any book as well. But you need to know them while you are going to do marijuana production. At our company Pipe Dreemz Corporation, we provide this support and consulting services to all of our clients and customers. Our Boss Mr. Goerges have 25 years of experience working with several federal agencies and drug dealing departmental experiences to cope with them.

When you are buying any medicine form store you know that they are being passed through a series of tests. There will be several guidelines, uses of doses on the printing on the paper. In case of marijuana people also need the same guidelines on when to use or when not to use – at what dose? Marijuana patients also need to know regarding pesticides. Microorganisms, such as molds, bacteria and yeast, are found in small amounts in food and drink and the air we breathe, as well as in cannabis and other herbal remedies. We need to check that the marijuana are carefully cultivated and harvested as well. The cannabis material must be screened for contamination before it is being packaged. When cannabis is being placed to dispensaries also needs to be checked that they are doing a  good quality control practices. The Dispensaries also needs to provide better care for its patients.  Currently cannabis is being distributed through completely unregulated channels and remains on the frontier of medical research. The dispensary personnel also need training in properly so that they could handle sterile techniques to protect against on-site bacterial techniques. The marijuana growers need to differentiate by quality and level of contaminants as well. The potency and overall quality of any cannabis strain can be affected by the environmental conditions under which it is grown. Patients are completely in the dark about potency levels and actual quality.

United States govt. have reduced the scope of research and testing of cannabis and that is another blockade of getting quality marijuana. The United States govt. is thinking that getting higher research in marijuana might get to wrong hand and that might be risky for the nation. However, independent testing can reduce the risks of contamination and there by improve the overall quality of the cannabis distributed as medicine. We need to check if marijuana perfectly held pesticides in it through some testing programs. There could be various pesticides like - Organophosphates, carbamates, Pyrethroids, Avermectins etc. Microorganisms such as molds, bacteria, and yeast are everywhere — even in small amounts in food and drink and in the air we breathe. The marijuana could also contain a form of Microorganisms so we also need to run tests for that too. The following types of Microorganisms mainly could stay in cannabis, they are - Aspergillus, Penicillium, Cladosporium , Alternaria , Yeasts , Escherichia Coli etc. Also, patients require to choose proper medicines as well.  While you are buying the cannabis form health Canada, make sure there are cannabis seal on the products. The standardized packaging program will also help you to do so. The Safe Cannabis seal and packaging program increases quality control for the industry by changing the model to give producers the opportunity to certify and package their products before they come to market. Make sure that the cannabis nitrogen packaging services is also available for cannabis packaging as well. The cannabis also needs to be temper proof using various models and testing methods. The tamper-proof packaging keeps the cannabis as fresh as the day it was sealed, substantially reducing mold and bacterial growth, and significantly reducing degradation and discoloration. While you are buying cannabis packets form dispensaries make sure that is not too old.

Steep Hill Lab played a major role in the case of lab testing. When you are buying a medicine you need to know it is surely going to help you. Medicine out of dates of medicines with some bad wastes may do the reverse reaction. You need to make sure that it is not harmful. The marijuana growers can demonstrate the quality and improve operations as well. Since the health Canada is taking care of these operations and quality control so they also have some liability, they should not give permission to that license that is not providing quality cannabis product. They require performing quality control testing and the safe cannabis seal to grantee the quality of their cultivation. These can also be done the farmers too. This way one can grantee their products and the buyers will know that their product is safe high quality , pure , pesticide free , properly measured for potency and compliant with proposed regulations.

Today cannabis is growing very faster. Compared to the other businesses the growth rate of cannabis is relatively very good and it will even more in next 10 years. Politicians also agreed that putting proper tax on cannabis selling will also increase the earnings and taxes for United States govt. Also, govt. should initiate the innovation in cannabis industry. This will also increase the cannabis opportunities even further. When the cannabis industry will start growing dramatically then the business will also grow in terms of industry such as financial services, supply management and more. Patients, caregivers, cannabis medicine producers, collective staff, and doctors have a responsibility to Understand the importance of growing, processing, handling, and consuming cannabis medicines safely. Through education, awareness, and testing, the industry can develop standards and guidelines by which safe and clean medicines are readily available for patient consumption.

Thanks to god and Mr. Georges Routhier who donated his whole life to those companies and improving their qualities. For those companies who are producing marijuana Pipe Dreemz is a quality assurance person ACMPR. Today at Pipe dreemz, we are supporting over 150 million dollar businesses across Canada and United States. One must understand that quality control requires lot of effort and we at pipe dreemz with the help of experts we solve and try to upgrade your quality system. If you do have any questions, just ask them any questions.

You can email or call Pipe Dreemz email at info@pipedreemz.org or call at 1-833-226-2776. We look forward working with you.

Why are so many engineers unemployed in India?

India is a 3rd world country all we know. It got independence in 1947. But, again think - what about china? The country just behind our last bench got independent in 1949(2 years after than us). Now, at 2017 the GDP of India is close to 2 trillion dollar and china is just 9-10 trillion dollars. You will say lots of bla bla ... But you cannot deny this numbers. The china has got something which India doesn't. China though far more advance when India was sleeping and fighting within the country. The Chinese took the chance. Not just took the chance they did a good use of the chance and what is that?

The Rise of china - After World War 2, it became a competition who will lead the 20th century and onwards? Europe, America or Russia? East or west? The American dream was not to rule actually, their dream to get rich and that's why they needed to sell their products to the market and rest of the world and the opportunity where they can sell and earn money. So, they started innovation and innovation. They started pushing countries to open their market. But to sell products they also needed to manufacture. They needed to make their products. They needed cheap sources of manufacturing the things. They needed sources where people will produce and produce and we will sell it. Yes lots of profit is there. Technology was their but technology was not so advance that they could produce robots and get their job done. And then they have less population. The china used this advantage. They open their market not just selling but also for manufacturing. The country with 1.5 billion populations at that time is just hungry for jobs. The poverty is filled with the country. So, one need to sell food and one is so hungry to eat. The china needed west and vice versa. The china starts creating environment for mass manufacturing. The west sees china is a card and they played it. I can remember a quote which is read somewhere in Internet where Mao said "By 2049 every single Chinese will be a rich man" and china is almost in that way. I do believe china will not take 2050 but china will do it within 2030 and the country of 1.25 billion rich people there. The west started producing products in china and gradually started selling whole west, eastern, western parts of the world. This mass fracturing not only increased throughout the country, it also helped the country to get the idea of technology and business. The Chinese govt. was to remove poverty of 500 million people for this mass manufacturing business. They both got profit and as a result of which in 2017 china became a country of 10 trillion dollar economy, 5 times more than India.

Indian issues - India, which is riddled with its own policies, cannot just decide what is best for him. It too had poverty but could not decide how to remove it. India had note ban, emergencies for many times. Still the country remains far behind development. That is probably because of bad economic policies and every law in India is rigid. There is corruption in every angle of govt. as well. The Indians were busy in fighting themselves only just one word "what to do"? And, you know good times are not always available. In 1991, India just opened its market and private agencies. This is the 1st time India did something with its economy. If anyone, knows the whole thing you will say it looks like India did its independence in 1991 not in 1947. Moreover, a country with a billion people cannot change overnight. It takes time. The rapid industrial revolution started after 1 decade, since the 2000. Still in 21st century, no matter how much advance India is, it is still filled with rigid laws.

Our progress - Since the starting of 21st century, India's Chinese revolutions started. However, it just like the food is about to end still hungry guys in line. The world already filled with cheap Chinese products. The Chinese steel is all over the world. So many things china produces compared to the rest of the world. The china consumes coal compared to the rest of the world, china produces steel compared to the rest of the world and many more. So, everywhere is china. Without china east, west, north, south is blind.  So, how India will create its own space? The world is not just ready to cope with china. There is no space for India to become china. While I was on train to go to daily job at Kolkata, one of my friends argued with me daily. He said many things daily; one of these topics on china is following -

“I know china is dumping the India market, but does Indians have alternatives to Chinese products?”

The Chinese’s are not only selling products in India, they too make many products in India. Many Chinese Smartphone companies are today is being assembled in India, don't you think that Chinese are creating jobs too? There are lots of Chinese investment is going happen in India, don't you this is also important?

The Indian govt. also earns huge revenue just by imposing duty to the products sold in India.
Don't know, but to me all these questions don't have any answer to  me. It is hard to explain such things as well. How is the benefit when a product sold in India is produced by Indian company and made in India vs a Chinese company just producing and selling in India? No matter how much Chinese helps in any way, if we could make each and every product sold in India to be make in India it will benefit. All knows why?

When you put the things simply, it is not possible to make them understand that products sold in India should be 100% made in India and that is 1st step towards a growing economy. Now, there is the discussion for topic of the article starts. We produce over 1.5 millions engineers each year compared to 1 lakh engineers in USA and still don't have space for them. They are still unemployable. I am here putting all the reasons here so that one could understand why Indian engineers are unemployed able -

1. China - The china issue I just discussed before. The world already has a china form where cheap labor is still available and the world is not ready create china. - explained that before. So, No room for made in India.
2. Technology - Technology is moving faster than us. 20th centaury was just technology but in 21st centaury not just developing the technology you also need technology in each and every step. We can divide the technology requirement in following ways -
3. Automation is everywhere - Not just producing goods, you also need to produce well without human resources. You know what? Yes, it is. You need to produce goods with machines because machines cannot be-tray human cannot. Human resources could strike but machines could not. Human need increment in salary but machines don't. So, make sure machines can produce your products. Also, machines could do 24 X 7 works but human cannot. Machines could replace 20 people work for 1 machines and that's why today manufacturing units don't just need human resources. They just need machines to develop machines.
4. An innovation drive the technology - Yes, Innovation in technology sector is the primary requirement today's technology. We need to innovate products each year. Apple, Samsung is producing new versions of smart phones and that increases the sales. Wow... this year a new phone from apple - let's buy it now. If there is no new phone, why buy?
5. Quality and quantity both required - 20th centaury was just for develop quality products. Which approach created by America and got success. But in 21st not just quality products, you also needs to produce that products mass quantity. Which strategy is started taking shape in china? Today, in 21st century, china is not just trying develop quality products it also wants to produce for the 7 billion people on the earth. The more it produces there would be less money for it. It would be cheap. It would be high quality as well as cheap. This here china has used its 1.3 billion populations to develop high quality as well mass production. India lacks the environment for mass production as well as quality production.
6. Robotics is the future - It is noted by scientists that by 2050, 79% of jobs done by human beings will be done by robots. Mostly human jobs will be to control the robots. So, baby born in 2017 will face lot of problems after 40 years of age. He or she may remain jobless after having lot of degrees.
7. Engineering colleges are just business - yes, it is Engineering colleges are just businesses. They are not here to make engineers who will build futures planes, buildings, bridges etc. They are just here to make money. They are just talking millions and  billions of rupees loan from banks and make colleges. In west Bengal, there are lots of engineering colleges (I don't want to name) those don't have any kind of infrastructure - just a few rooms with chairs and tables and a computer levorotary and then nothing. No practical room for other engineering students likes - mechanical engineering, chemical etc. However, they promise a lot. We guarantee your job; we created highest quality of infrastructure, library and lots of such. In fact they are not yet affiliated form govt. They just don't care whether the student can learn engineering or not they are just waiting to make money. Somewhere engineering's college's takes lakhs of money from the student coming from very middle class student in the name of donation.
8. Students are studying eng. To just become engineer. Not for Industry - yes, Students are studying engineering just be become an engineer. Yes, it is a course for intelligent students, lots of money sends (so, his parents got a chance to show money). They want to be proud about themselves that I am an engineer and that's all. They have extremely poor quality of education and training system (because you colleges main are to make money not to make engineers).
9. Make in India but no make for India - Our Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi Lunched "Make in India" campaign. Was that really significant? I don't think so. Just after Modi announced make in India campaign, following next month. Russian president Putin came in India and announces the deal of buying s400 missile system for Indian army. Is that an example of Make in India? India buying talgo train coaches from Australia, is that an example of India? USA is going to sell predator drones? Is that an example of make in India? Of course not. The country which produces 1.5 million engineers each year is buying 80% its weapons from Russia, USA, and France - that is not making in India. But it is not that we cannot build our own trains, tanks, guns and light combat aircrafts - of course we can do. There are already. DRDO have developed LCA named tejas, missile named barak, akash etc, arjun tanks and more. Why Indian army cannot use them? Simple because of quality and does not meet army demands. I wish it could be better if we could make for India rather than make in India. At least those products will be sold in India would be made in India with this rule.

Now you understand why India cannot employee its own engineers? Obviously, there are problems in govt. side, public side and business man side. Many people say the problems are with the quality of education and training the engineers are getting, many say there are engineers but no jobs. I say the problem is everywhere. Education cannot be bought by money. It requires long journey and hard work to get successful. Also, requires govt. support. We all need to seat in front of table need to analyze all the dos and don'ts and that would be the only way to solve all the issues.

I think (and I am sure) India one day will meet its good use of engineers.

Understanding ACMPR – Top 5 Questions on Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations

Hello there! Pipe Dreemz is here happy to help to understand what ACMPR is. Read here today to know the detail.

What is ACMPR? Why we need to know this?
The full form of acmpr is access to cannabis for medical purpose regulations. This is needed to know when you are going to put your application to health Canada so that you would like to do marijuana production for only medical purposes. But before you submit an application to health Canada they want to know if you can implement all the things that one need to run.

Who can produce/ obtain medical marijuana?
Any individual or any company could produce marijuana and can obtain dried marijuana in the form of oil as well form a company who has authorized licensed form health Canada. Individual can produce very limited versions of marijuana or dried marijuana just by obtaining a license form health Canada. If it is company or organization then it requires obtaining commercial license form health Canada in order to produce on large scale basis.

How marijuana could be sold?
Marijuana must not be sold to unauthorized persons. Those patients have a bill, on which doctors have written or predicted marijuana for curable purposes. No one other than this should have any access to marijuana. You can sell, ship, transport of marijuana only for those purposes. If you are cannabis licensed producer then you can sell marijuana substance to another licensed producer, a licensed dealer or the minister or to a person to whom an exemption relating to the substance has been granted under section 56 of the Act. Any licensed producer may sell or provide fresh dried marijuana or cannabis oil to a client or that producer or an individual who is responsible for that client. He can sell to a hospital employee of that form or marijuana if the possession of the substance is for the purpose of and in connection with their employment. You can also sell a person to whom an exemption relating to the substance has been granted under section 56 of the Act and he can ship fresh or dried marijuana or cannabis oil to a health care practitioner.

Who can get license to produce marijuana?
To produce marijuana you must obtain a legal license form health Canada and to do that you must apply to health Canada with proper documents. In order to get approval from health Canada you must maintain some sort of terms, conditions and set of rules. You need to have proper infrastructure, office setup, Network facilities, and growing facilities , waste management system , installing security system , quality control management , plantation , good manufacturing practices , good production practices , record keeping of various day to day activities , employee management , preparing facility plans and drawings , budget analysis and hydro requirements and analysis  , general contractor oversights , equipment supply  , garden consulting  , how you design your grow room etc. Once you submit white papers on all these stuffs you will get approval from health Canada. Make sure that you could get rejected by health Canada if they think that you are not eligible for medical marijuana production. So, it is always better to go to any MMPR consulting firm where you will have assistance and consulting services for getting marijuana application approved.

 What activities you can do with your marijuana?
The marijuana you are producing will only be used in medical purposes.  To do this you can sell, donate, ship, export marijuana to only medical purposes and only to those people who are authorized to use marijuana for medical purposes. This means a normal people who are not suggested marijuana by doctors could not ask you for marijuana sell and you also are not authorized to sell marijuana to him. The health Canada wants you to follow these rules strictly. Possess, produce, sell, provide, ship, deliver, transport and destroy marijuana or cannabis oil in its natural form. Other than marijuana or cannabis oil, for the purpose of producing cannabis oil, and sell, provide ship, deliver, transport and destroy that cannabis if it was obtained or produced for that purpose. If you are licensed cannabis producer you can sell cannabis to another licensed producer or a licensed dealer, or a person to whom an exemption relating to the substance has been granted under section 56 of the Act. While you are producing substances, you can ship, sell or producer cannabis to a person who is also a licensed producer or an authorized to buy marijuana for medical purposes. A licensed producer of dried marijuana or cannabis oil could sell to a client of that producer or an individual who is responsible for the client or a hospital employee, if the possession of the substance is for the purposes of and in connection with their employment or a person to whom an exemption relating to the substance has been granted under section 56 of the Act. A licensed producer must produce, package or label cannabis only indoors and at the producer’s site. A licensed producer must store cannabis only indoors and at the producer’s site.  A licensed producer must store cannabis, other than marijuana plants, in accordance with the Security Directive.

We offer acmpr consulting; mmpr consulting and help clients to obtain license form health Canada who would like to produce marijuana for medical purposes. We provide our services with following services –
1.Application Preparation
2.Application Review
3.Application Submission
4.Talent Acquisition and Training
5.Site selection and Planning

6.Facility Design & Planning
•Preparation of facility plans and drawings
•Detailed Budget, including Hydro Requirements & Costs
•General Contractor Oversight & Equipment Supplier Agreements
•Facility Build-Outs

7.Production
•Grow Room Design & Garden Consulting
•Laboratory Equipment procurement
•Planning, procurement and oversight for Systems Installation including HVAC, Electrical and Fertigation

8.Production Planning
9.Facility Planning
10.Security Planning and Review
11.Technology Plan
12.Detailed Hydro Requirements and Costs
13.Detailed Budget
14.General Contractor Oversight
15.Equipment Supplier Agreements
16.Facility Build Out
17.Grow Room Design
18.Pre-Inspection services


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Let us know if you still have any questions. If you do have any questions if you are not satisfied with the questions said above then you can contact with for any question regarding ACMPR. We would love to give you all the answer of your all questions. For further information do email us at info@pipedreemz.org or call us at 1-833-226-2776.