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Cannabis Produced Without Growing The Plant: Sci-Fi Or Futuristic Technology? BioHarvest Explains

Benzinga · Nicolas Jose Rodriguez · last updated
BioHarvest Sciences Inc. (CSE: BHSC), a biotech company with offices in Canada and Israel, recently announced that it has produced some 22 pounds of full-spectrum cannabis biomass at a commercial scale without growing the plant itself. The cannabis biomass, which is not genetically modified, was produced using BioHarvest’s proprietary BioFarming technology platform that grows plant cells in their natural structure in proprietary bioreactors, the company said in a press release. The result of the breakthrough by the Canadian-Israeli biotech company is cannabis biomass that is uniquely consistent and clean, resolving two major pain points related to product quality in the medicinal cannabis industry — product variability and contamination. “The legal cannabis industry has been waiting for this moment as many of the challenges it has faced are being resolved using BioHarvest’s technology and capabilities,” said BioHarvest CEO Ilan Sobel. The Company’s next stage will consist of producing cannabis biomass in industrial-scale bioreactors.