This Little Canadian Town Has Become the Nation’s Pot Capital
- Smiths Falls sees turnaround since marijuana company’s arrival
- Canopy Growth took over abandoned chocolate plant years ago
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All it took was a little marijuana to lift this Canadian town’s spirits.
Smiths Falls, Ontario -- population 8,885 -- is seeing a revival of fortunes since medical marijuana producer Tweed Inc. set up shop four years ago in an abandoned Hershey Co. chocolate factory. The company, since renamed Canopy Growth Corp., has become the world’s largest publicly traded cannabis producer and is the town’s largest private-sector employer.