The move also comes as Health Canada tries to set right a relatively unstable official market, where illegal sales are one factor undermining the business plans of the dozens of producers and distributors set up over the past five years.
The draft guidance for the first time sets out factors that the regulator may consider in refusing or revoking a registration for “personal production.” Factors include authorization of unjustified amounts and “criminal activity and/or diversion of cannabis.”Canada in 2018 was the first major country to legalize cannabis but its programs have since run into a myriad of troubles.
In January, Ontario Provincial Police seized over 180,000 cannabis plants and numerous vehicles and firearms by raiding illegal cultivation facilities, many of which exploit Health Canada’s personal medical weed cultivation licenses. Health Canada said in December it was seeing a surge in the amount of pot personal cultivators were being authorized to grow.
If the failings legal weed business doesn’t explain the ridiculous climate for starting legitimate business in this country I don’t know what could. cdnpoli
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