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A Canadian cannabis company is opening a new $10-million processing plant in London as the country prepares to legalize recreational pot.

Tilray, a licensed medical marijuana producer, has created the High Park subsidiary to produce and distribute recreational cannabis products, the B.C.-based company announced Wednesday.

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High Park is opening a 5,200-square-metre plant in London, where workers will process cannabis grown down Highway 402 at the company’s Petrolia-area greenhouse.

The Enniskillen Township operation on LaSalle Line was Tilray’s second in Canada – its flagship greenhouse opened in Nanaimo, B.C., in 2014 – and is expected to create 200 to 250 full-time jobs in the next five years, the company says.

Construction is underway on the five-hectare greenhouse, now called High Park Farms, and the $30-million facility will begin operating later this year, the company says.