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US (FL): An inside look at a production facility

In a nondescript complex in rural Indiantown, you might find the least humid place in Florida.

Matt Fauver showed WPTV where harvested cannabis is hung to dry for a little over a week. He said it's important to keep the product, which is sold for prescription use in Florida, in dark, dry, and cool conditions that are closely monitored and maintained by equipment.

Humidity is one of the many things Fauver, the director of cultivation, and his roughly 200 colleagues at Cresco Labs have to control in the cultivation facility in order to ensure consistency and compliance with a volume of state regulations on marijuana.

"There's a lot of misconceptions about the cleanliness or the viability of a product," Fauver said. "I mean, it's tested. It's more rigorous than the pharmaceutical industry."

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