Tour of cannabis factory in Canada shows glimpse of road ahead for Ireland [Video]

INSIDE A CANNABIS factory in rural Canada, workers scrub in before entering the workplace.

Hair nets, shoe covers, gowns and plastic gloves are just some of the measures in place to prevent contaminants getting anywhere near the production line.

Coast Mountain Cannabis (CMC) in Pemberton, British Columbia is cleaned to hospital standards and is a top employer for locals in this part of western Canada. Its six indoor grow rooms produce one million grams of award-winning, organic cannabis per year.

The company plans to start bringing visiting English and Irish people on tours, to dispel the image that some tourists may still have in their head when they hear the word “weed.”

“These are the walls you’d have in an operating theatre,” says CMC’s co-founder Andrew Ellott. “It is a highly sanitised environment.”

Any thoughts of dodgy dealings in laneways are immediately dispelled by the English businessman.

Canada was one …