Two weeks into legal cannabis sales, Nova Scotians can now buy locally-grown bud from the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation (NSLC).

NSLC cannabis shops are now stocking one product from a brand called SKOSHA — a riff on the latter half of the province’s name.

Joe Sandford is the co-founder of Breathing Green Solutions — the Wentworth-based company that grows SKOSHA cannabis — and said right now the company is selling exclusively to the NSLC.

“We’ve been at full capacity for about two months now,” he said of their production.

But they only just got approval from Health Canada to sell their goods.

Breathing Green is one of three licensed cannabis producers in the province, but right now the other two are approved only for growing, not for sales.

With the final green-light from the federal government, SKOSHA’s cannabis strain dubbed Nor’Easter is now for sale online through the NSLC and at the Amherst, New Glasgow, Truro, and Clyde St. locations.

Sandford said SKOSHA’s ability to offer more product to the NSLC is hindered only by the speed of harvesting and packaging.

NSLC spokesperson Beverley Ware said she expects the rest of the province’s cannabis shops to offer SKOSHA products as soon as more is available.

"We expect the customers are going to be extremely happy about this,” she said of the addition of a local grower.

The NSLC — which has the monopoly on pot sales in the province — has offered products from 15 different Canadian producers since legalization kicked off on Oct. 17.

Of course, none were local because no local producers were licensed to sell yet. That’s now changed with the addition of SKOSHA to NSLC shelves, and Ware said the local offering could increase as Health Canada continues to approve more sales licenses.

"When (local producers) have their licenses, we expect to be in conversations with them to talk about being able to offer their products to our customers as well."

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