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Shawn McDougall moves around inside the vault with a blue bucket full of dried cannabis and pauses so each visitor can get a whiff of the aroma.

This type of cannabis is called Shark Shock, says the production manager of BlissCo Cannabis, a cannabis grower and processor in Langley. “This is one of the strains that has a lot of value for us.”

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The company opened its 12,000-square-foot production facility on Oct. 30 for a media tour. BlissCo is set up in an unmarked unit in a sand-coloured industrial complex next to the Golden Ears Bridge.

It is ramping up production as it is set to join the ranks of roughly 130 licensed cannabis producers in Canada, but it does so amid uncertainty in the infant legalized market — overall demand is unknown, distribution networks are patchy and the number of legal competitors could skyrocket.

The tour included visits to BlissCo’s grow and harvest rooms, its oil extraction lab and its 900-square-foot vault, in which the dried cannabis flower will be sorted, packaged, labelled and stored.