Grow Marijuana For Medical Purposes In Canada

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Cannabis Regulation in Canada
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Canada, In Brief

• Right Now...
• Legal market for fresh and dried cannabis and
  cannabis oil for medical consumers only
• As on July 1, 2018 ... Legal market for
  non-medical consumers as well

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Current Regulations

• ACMPR Access To Cannabis For Medical Purposes
  Regulations
• Regulations to the Controlled Drugs and
  Substances Act
• Regulated activities
• Sale, possession, production, etc. of fresh/dried
  cannabis and cannabis oil
• Sale of starting materials to patients or their
  designates
• Establish and enforce product and process
  standards

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Three Primary Sources of Legal Cannabis

1. Produced/sold by licensed producer
2. Grown by authorized individual
3. Grown by authorized individuals authorized
   designate

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Licensure

• Licensed Producers may possess, produce, sell,
  provide, ship, deliver, transport and destroy
  marijuana or cannabis oil
• LPs must be individuals or corporations
• Licences are site-specific
• Licences establish maximum quantities
• Must notify local authorities
• Security clearance required for specific
  personnel and for each officer and director (if
  LP is a corporation)

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Licensing Process for LPs

1. Intake and Initial Screening
2. Detailed Review and Initiation of Security
   Clearance Process
3. Issuance of Licence to Produce
4. Introductory Inspection (as cultivation begins)
5. Pre-Sales Inspection
6. Issuance of Licence to Sell

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Patients

• Patients
• Must ordinarily reside in Canada
• Must have a medical document provided by a
  health care practitioner to a person under their
  professional treatment.
• Must register with an LP, providing their medical
  document

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Consumer Distribution Mechanism
Patient registers with LP
Patient Places Order
LP ships to Patient

• Note
• shipping is the only authorized distribution
  mechanism
• there must be an order for each shipment
• in a 30-day period, may not sell more than 30
  times the daily limit on Medical Document

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Other Forms of Distribution

• Other forms of distribution
• to other LPs
• to certain healthcare providers and institutions
• to Health Canada

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Imports and Exports

• Provisions for importation and exportation (if
  necessary permits are obtained and specific
  requirements fulfilled)
• Health Canada published guidance expresses a lack
  of support for facilitating a regime to service
  global demand
• Very limited circumstances, such as, importing
  starting materials or exporting a unique strain
  for scientific investigation in a foreign
  laboratory
• Despite this guidance, there are several recent
  examples of Canadian LPs that have obtained
  export permits
• Imports permits tend to be limited to starting
  materials

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