Under fire, marijuana firm invented employee to dispute claims

The strange saga of CEN Biotech, the company seeking to become Health Canada’s largest producer of medical marijuana, has taken a bizarre new twist: The company has been caught creating a fake employee, and issued a press release quoting the made-up person.

CEN Biotech, which has made it to the final stage of a licencing process Health Canada describes as “rigorous,” issued the phony press release last month after an investigation by The Globe and Mail uncovered numerous examples of the company misrepresenting itself to the public, and using Health Canada’s name to make inaccurate claims about its business.

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