British Sugar Hemp
Norfolk, United KingdomFounded 2016
About British Sugar Hemp
British Sugar operates one of the UK's largest legal cannabis growing operations at its facility in Norfolk, cultivating cannabis for GW Pharmaceuticals (now Jazz) to produce Epidiolex. The operation predates the 2018 medical cannabis legalisation.
Key Facts
- 1Operates one of the UK's largest legal cannabis cultivation sites in Norfolk
- 2Grows cannabis under Home Office licence as feedstock for Epidiolex production
- 3A subsidiary of Associated British Foods
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does a sugar company grow cannabis?
British Sugar holds a Home Office licence to grow cannabis at its Norfolk facility, initially to supply GW Pharmaceuticals with raw material for the epilepsy drug Epidiolex.
Can the public buy cannabis from British Sugar?
No, British Sugar's cannabis cultivation is strictly for licensed pharmaceutical purposes and is not available to the general public or medical cannabis patients.
Cannabis Laws
Products
- Cannabis biomass for pharmaceutical extraction
- Industrial hemp cultivation
Specialties
Large-scale licensed cannabis cultivationPharmaceutical feedstock production
Company Details
- Location
- Norfolk, United Kingdom
- Founded
- 2016
- Publicly Traded
- No
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