B.C. premier has questions after company gets Health Canada approval to produce, sell cocaine

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B.C. company allowed to sell, and produce cocaine by Health Canada, and the premier, David Eby, is 'astonished' as he wasn't consulted or informed — via TheGrowthOp

to its licence to “possess, produce, sell and distribute” cocaine. The company said the approval allows Adastra to interact with up to 250 grams of cocaine and to import coca leaves to manufacture and synthesize the substance.Sign up for Weekend Dispensary to get the latest cannabis news and exclusive articles delivered straight to your inbox.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.

“If Health Canada did in fact do this, they did it, not only without engaging with the province, but without notice to us,” he said, via theAdastra Holdings CEO, Michael Forbes, said in a statement that the company “will evaluate how the commercialization of fits in with our business model at Adastra in an effort to position ourselves to support the demand for a safe supply of cocaine.

On Thursday, during Question Period, B.C. Liberal Leader Kevin Falcon also raised questions about Adastra’s announcement.. “Commercializing cocaine as a business opportunity amounts to legalizing cocaine trafficking, full stop.”, Cloverdale-Langley City MP John Aldag has since spoken with officials at Health Canada, who confirmed that the cocaine is for research purposes and can be sold to other licensed companies but not the general public.

. Granted by Ottawa, the exemption is intended as a harm reduction measure aimed to focus on treatment rather than criminalization and allows adults to possess small amounts of illicit drugs for personal use without facing criminal charges, such as opioids, cocaine and amphetamines., MDMA, morphine, opium and diacetylmorphine. Oryx BioMed Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sunshine Earth Labs, received the licenses from Health Canada.

 

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TheGrowthOp That’s because Dave_Eby and the bcndp are almost as inept as JustinTrudeau and the liberal_party

TheGrowthOp And that misleading statement is why I don’t subscribe to this rag.

TheGrowthOp Its micro dosing

TheGrowthOp Love watching the Lib / NDP relationship. Always good for a laugh

TheGrowthOp British Columbia will soon be like California.

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