A Toronto-based company that specializes in upscale vehicle customization is taking steps to make the transportation of marijuana easier in states where it's legal, including Michigan.

INKAS Armored Vehicle Manufacturing has been around since 1995, mostly building armored bank trunks and civilian-grade armored vehicles.

More recently though, the company has begun retrofitting vehicles for bulletproof cannabis transport.

"We’re leading the way in Michigan, Colorado and a few other states," said Arthur Yurovitsky, vice president of marketing at INKAS. "The vehicles are armored all the way around and their climate-control system is built in, along with a cannabis-optimized layout, so that can be however the person wants it designed to best load and unload and move the product."

The internal temperature of the vehicle is closely controlled, according to INKAS. "If incorrect humidity and overall temperature are not maintained, then this can render the product substandard," the company said in a news release. "In addition, the guards need protection from the effects of inhaling the product during shipping."

INKAS makes the cannabis transport trucks using Ford Transit vans, offering them in various sizes, payload capacities and configurations. It uses models 150, 250 and 350 for small-to-medium companies, and Ford Transit 350HD models for larger companies. In most cases, the vehicles start at $65,000, Yurovitsky said.

The INKAS website advertises the cannabis transport vehicles as highly discreet: "Vehicles are meticulously engineered in order to not attract unwanted attention."

INKAS offers many other customization types, like the 2019 Armored Cadillac Escalade ESV Chairman Package. The built-to-order vehicle is a mobile office with a bulletproof shell, costing $300,000 to $500,000. A regular Escalade ESV starts at $78,195.

INKAS sells about 420 built-to-order vehicles a year, about 30 percent to 40 percent of those sales are to customers in the United States, Yurovitsky said.

Elissa Robinson contributed to this report.