29-year-old the lead agronomist for a Whistler marijuana company.
As a 14-year-old loading soil at a Quebec poinsettia greenhouse, David Bernard-Perron never would have expected he’d grow up to be the lead agronomist for a marijuana company in Whistler.
But at 29, that’s exactly what he’s doing, and the company he works for is at the forefront of quickly growing industry.
Bernard-Perron says the poinsettia job can be credited with getting him interested in plant sciences, but even as a student working on a masters degree in organic agriculture at McGill University, he wasn’t especially interested in cannabis. He barely had any experience working with it, and he didn’t count himself as a recreational user.
– Read the entire article at CBC News.
