On April 11, 2018, Ontario announced the first four
locations for retail cannabis stores,
operated mainly by LCBO and the Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS), while other
provinces already had multiple sales plans for their provinces. The life of
marijuana is far from the first prescription of nationalization-limited
diseases for personal enjoyment. Canada becomes the world leader as the first
G7 and G20 country to be approved at the federal level and as a legal framework
for retailers. There has always been mixed feelings about how people have heard
about cannabis over the years, with a lot of comings and goings about how and
when cannabis can be accessed.
The first medical marijuana ordinance dates back to June
2001, when the Marijuana Medical Access Regulations (MMAR) enact under the Law on Controlled Substances
and Drugs. Patients were granted access to medical marijuana as a prescription,
and there were three ways of accessing it: (i) cultivating their own; (ii)
receive it from a specific person; or (iii) the purchase of dry marijuana from
Health Canada, which had commissioned a private company to produce and
distribute marijuana for them. The shortcomings of MMAR were some.
MMAR was repealed in 2014 and replaced by the Marijuana for
Medical Purposes Regulations (MMPR). It
eliminates the need to meet limited health criteria before receiving medical
marijuana and eliminate personal growth. In contrast, patients were allowed
access to medical marijuana only from state-approved manufacturers limited to
dry forms only.
It appears that Health Canada received 3,218 responses to
the online survey, 450 written responses and 192 stakeholders, and 343
interested parties participating in roundtables
or webinars. Health Canada's response to these comments is generally the
consideration to be more lenient with the safety approval for the approved
manufacturers, allowing for all forms and varieties of cannabis-based products,
less stringent export and import criteria for cannabis. Many of these
considerations are just starting to remove the black market from the cannabis
business and expand legal opportunities.
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hundreds of organizations in Canada, Dicentra cannabis consulting is an established regulatory specialist functioning hand-in-hand
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