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Aurora Cannabis Inc.(CVE:ACB) (OTCMKTS:ACBFF)(FRA:21P) was one of the best performing marijuana stocks in Canada this week after the government’s Task Force on Cannabis Legalization released its report Tuesday.

The company recently broke ground on a new 800,000 square foot growing facility that it says will produce 100,000 kilograms of dried product by 2018. The facility itself is expected to be completed by October 2017.

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The company’s strategy is to position itself for the imminent recreational market by being ready with scaled production.

“We’re not building it in stages,” said CEO Terry Booth in a recent podcast interview. We’re going to go after this project, but when we hit around 250,000 to 300,000 square feet, that’ll be ready to grow, and that should happen in late spring of 2017. By that time, we’ll know what the government has tabled for legislation, and if for some reason the government has to be slowed down in their anticipated start date, which we feel is April of ’18, then we can stop construction and just finish with the 250,000 square feet and get growing.”