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It’s official. Stratford pot smokers can now enjoy a legal recreational cannabis strain that was bred, grown and packaged entirely in the Festival City. Stratford’s GreenSeal Cannabis Co. celebrated the launch of of Gorilla Berry, its first cannabis strain that’s now available for purchase in Ontario, with a Friday event hosted by the Little Leaf Cannabis Co. pot shop, one of many stores in Stratford and across the province now carrying the GreenSeal label. “Ontario being the biggest province in Canada, with the most people, it’s definitely a market that we really wanted to get into,” said GreenSeal president Corey Hamilton. “Also, being a local market where we are in Stratford – I think we have five stores in Stratford right now with more coming – we want to make sure the product is here for the local people and all of Ontario.” Prior to this week’s Ontario launch, GreenSeal started shipping Gorilla Berry and a few other strains grown at the company’s Wright Boulevard production facility to Alberta and B.C., where Hamilton said it’s been well-received.
“Ontario is a difficult province to get into. It was really challenging, especially lately, so we’re thrilled we got in and I think it says a lot about our product and our staff and everything that we strive toward,” said Hamilton, noting the Ontario Cannabis Store – the Crown agency that governs pot sales in the province – has recently been more selective in which products it approves for market.
Categorized as Indica-dominant – the kind of pot that can make you feel relaxed, euphoric, happy and sleepy – Gorilla Berry is the result of more than a year of careful breeding, lab testing, cloning and cultivation to create a strain that hits just right.
“Gorilla Berry is a very, kind of smooth-smoking strain. … The first nose that you get out of the bag is kind of a blueberry smell, and I find that it burns really, really clean … and it finishes off with a nice, kind of pine aftertaste. … We’ve definitely tried to (create) a strain that is higher in something called sesquiterpenes, which are more complex molecules that don’t break down at such a low temperatures, so they tend to hold the flavour better throughout a joint,” GreenSeal master grower Chad Morphy said.”
