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Canada eyes tighter rules for grow-your-own pot producers
Source: Reuters
BUSINESS NEWS
MARCH 8, 2021 7:12 AM UPDATED 33 MINUTES AGO
Exclusive: Canada eyes tighter rules for grow-your-own pot producers
By Shariq Khan
3 MIN READ
(Reuters) - Canada’s health regulator will launch a public consultation program on Monday in its draft guidance for individuals growing medical cannabis at home, hoping to clamp down on people selling weed on the black market.
In the draft document sent to some industry figures and seen by Reuters ahead of publication, Health Canada highlights recent police raids and arrests at production sites where people were using licenses to “cover and support large-scale illegal production and sale”.
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.
“Abuse of the medical purposes framework undermines the integrity of the system that many patients and health care practitioners rely on to access cannabis to address their medical needs,” Health Canada said in the document.
The draft guidance for the first time sets out factors that the regulator may consider in refusing or revoking a registration for “personal production”.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”.
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MARCH 8, 2021 7:12 AM UPDATED 33 MINUTES AGO
Exclusive: Canada eyes tighter rules for grow-your-own pot producers
By Shariq Khan
3 MIN READ
(Reuters) - Canada’s health regulator will launch a public consultation program on Monday in its draft guidance for individuals growing medical cannabis at home, hoping to clamp down on people selling weed on the black market.
In the draft document sent to some industry figures and seen by Reuters ahead of publication, Health Canada highlights recent police raids and arrests at production sites where people were using licenses to “cover and support large-scale illegal production and sale”.
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.
“Abuse of the medical purposes framework undermines the integrity of the system that many patients and health care practitioners rely on to access cannabis to address their medical needs,” Health Canada said in the document.
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”.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-cannabis-exclusive/exclusive-canada-eyes-tighter-rules-for-grow-your-own-pot-producers-idUSKBN2B017Q