b'By the time she was five, she was having 300 seizures a day. Her parents tried a CBD product manufactured by Colorado hemp growers the Stanley brotherswho would go on to found Charlottes Weband her seizures all but stopped. Charlotte became one of the faces of the CBD movement and a testament to the potential benefits of the cannabinoid.Sadly, Charlotte passed away in April of 2020 at the age of 13, but her legacy lives on. Colorado has officially named April 7 as Charlotte Figi Day in the state.Now, two Charlottes Web varietiesCW Ambassador and CW Duchessare approved for production in Canada. They are among the first hemp CBD cultivars on the Health Canada list that are early flowering and early maturing for outdoor cultivation and harvesting within the shorter Canadian growing season. TheJamie Ghossein is chief executive officer of CannabisRandy Shultz, chief technology officer for the hemp seeds will be produced and soldOrchards based in Ottawa. California-based Arcadia Biosciences.under the CW Hemp Supply Co. brand.Charlottes Web co-founder Jared Stanley said the deal with Tritium 3H will enable both Charlottes Web and Tritium 3H to drive future hemp innovation for the Canadian market.Of course, innovation cant happen without a degree of consumer confidence. Bear Reel, vice president of cultivation and R&D at Charlottes Web, was the lead developer of the two new cultivars approved by Health Canada. She says consumer confidence in hemp extract products relies first and foremost on good hemp genetics. Identifying those genetics isnt easy, however.Need for TrialingLike many crops in Canada, hemp varie-ties that grow well here need to be early flowering. Identifying those varieties means a need for regional trials, some-thing that prior to now has been difficult, according to Randy Shultz, chief tech-nology officer for the California-basedJan Slaski, principal researcher at InnoTech Alberta, in a field of hemp. For Slaski, April 19, 2021, will forever be Arcadia Biosciences. Arcadia also hasthe day that changed the hemp industry in Canada for the better.INTERNATIONAL EDITION 2022 GERMINATION.CA 5'