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NEW YORK (MainStreet)  The Canadian super grow facility CEN Biotech in Ontario, Canada will open its doors this summer if the company is soon approved for a marijuana growing license.

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"We've completed stage one of construction and have called for a pre-license inspection," said Bill Chaaban, CEO of Creative Edge Nutrition during an exclusive interview with MainStreet. "We're waiting on Health Canada to send an inspector out. They were anxious for us to be and up running, so I suspect the inspection will be done soon."

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Creative Edge Nutrition also manufactures Aminoplex, a popular body building supplement.

"Cannabis and Aminoplex are both natural, but Aminoplex is more synthetic than medical cannabis," Chaaban told MainStreet. "We are a holistic company in the nutraceutical industry, so expanding into medical marijuana makes sense."

Once approved, CEN Biotech will house the legal production and distribution under license with Health Canada of 1.3 million pounds of pot to be purveyed both domestically and worldwide.

At $8.00 a gram, 1.3 million pounds adds up to potentially $5 billion in sales a year with 80% profit margins at full capacity.

Chaaban's marijuana facility is costing $12 million to build in Windsor, Ontario -- right across the border from Creative Edge Nutrition's headquarters in Michigan.

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"We've raised $20 million through an investment group called Global Holdings International that took a 25% equity stake called global holdings international," Chaaban said.

Just one month ago, CEN attracted professional whistleblower and private regulator John Germinario to serve as its chairman of the board of directors.

"We have to establish substantial corporate governance and put Creative Edge Nutrition's house in order," said Germinario. "There's a lot of corporate finance work that needs to be implemented but it won't take a long time."

Prior to joining CEN Biotech, Germinario was a global capital markets securities fraud examiner and worked with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to identify securities, bank and tax fraud.

"Marijuana is the most controversial product to enter the market in a long time," Germinario told MainStreet. "My experience allows me to look at it as if it were being targeted by the regulator. If regulators are going to target emerging cannabis companies, they will have problems moving forward because if they are coming after the emerging market cannabis then they have to go after large pharmaceuticals that have cannabis divisions as well."

Germinario continues to work with the SEC, the FBI and the IRS on criminal investigations.

"Marijuana is a natural growth product," said Germinario. "Once it becomes legal, cannabis will be a commodity that will be traded on the exchange."

Although CEN currently trades as a penny stock as FITX, that may not be for long now that Germinario is on board.

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"I am not a big fan of penny stocks so we want to remove ourselves from the bulletin boards of pink sheets," Germinario said. "NASDAQ is an option but there are other exchanges. My goal is to switch as soon as possible and we'll have our board meeting this week. That's number one on my agenda."

--Written by Juliette Fairley for MainStreet