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Over the past six months, Damian Kettlewell’s small Vancouver-based medical marijuana company, BlissCo, has spent more than $100,000 buying, installing and retrofitting an old HSBC cash-transfer-station vault — complete with a 7,500-lb. door — in order to satisfy Health Canada’s strict security requirements for growing cannabis.

On Thursday night, he found out he didn’t need it.

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“We’re one of dozens of applicants in a similar situation,” said Kettlewell, after learning that Health Canada was scrapping the expensive security requirement after determining that the old rules, “do not align with the existing evidence of risks to public health and safety.”

The move comes after nearly 1,000 Health Canada inspections over four years found no evidence that marijuana was being diverted from licensed producers into the black market.

Along with ending the vault requirement, Health Canada also decided to eliminate a rule requiring 24-hour video surveillance inside all growing and harvesting rooms.