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Under Canada’s new Cannabis Act which takes effect next week adults will be able to legally grow up to four of their own pot plants for personal use.

But while the framers of the new legislation probably had a modest idea of what that meant, long-time growers like Windsor’s Leo Lucier can generate an enormous amount of weed with just four plants.

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Almost coinciding with the Oct. 17 legalization date, Lucier will be harvesting a small number of plants growing in the back yard of a friend’s modest home along a typical street in a Town of Amherstburg residential neighbourhood.

Each of these particular potted plants, however, is a monster — taller than an adult with arms stretched upward and wider than an adult with arms spread out.

“There are three types of growers, the novice, the intermediate and the advanced — this is advanced,” Lucier told the Star on a recent pre-harvest tour.

For me, it’s not about getting high, it’s about relieving pain.

The trained and pruned branches are dense with buds laden with trichomes, the resiny crystals that will cover the plant like frost and provide the mind-altering high or the pain relief being sought by the marijuana user.