| Cultivation |
FEDERAL |
The federal government would license production and set industry-wide rules and standards
- Physical and personnel security requirements
- Sanitary production requirements
- Prohibition on use of unauthorized pesticides
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Advertising and promotion restrictions |
Cannabis tracking system |
FEDERAL
- Conduct inspections
- Issue licences or permits
- Order testing and analysis
- Order the production of information
- Order product recalls
- Assess administrative monetary penalties (up to $1 million)
- Add conditions to, or suspend or revoke licenses
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| Manufacturing |
- Product testing (e.g. THC levels, contaminants)
- Physical and personnel security requirements
- Product safety and quality standards
- Standardized serving sizes and potency
- No products appealing to youth
- Packaging and labelling (e.g. childproof, warnings)
- Restrictions on use of ingredients and additives (e.g. nicotine, caffeine)
- Sanitary production practices
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| Distribution |
PROVINCIAL OR TERRITORIAL |
Provinces and territories have the power to take responsibility for authorizing distribution and sale by enacting legislation that meets the following conditions:
- Sell only cannabis that has been produced by a federally licensed producer
- Sell cannabis only to persons over the age of 18 years
- Keep appropriate records in relation to sale of cannabis
- Take adequate measures to reduce the risk that cannabis will be diverted to the illicit market
Provinces and territories have power to:
- Increase minimum age in their jurisdiction
- Lower the possession limit in their jurisdiction
- Enact additional rules for home cultivation, including lower plant limit
- Restrict where cannabis may be consumed (in public, in vehicles, etc.)
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PROVINCIAL AND TERRITORIAL
- Authorization and inspection regime to be determined by provincial/territorial/municipal governments
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| Retail |
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Subject to Parliamentary approval and Royal Assent, the Government of Canada intends to provide regulated and restricted access to cannabis:
- Allow the personal cultivation of cannabis at home, up to 4 plants per residence, from legal seeds/seedlings
- Adults would be able to purchase cannabis from a provincially or territorially authorized retailer. In provinces or territories that do not have a fully functional retail system established by the time the Act comes into force, adults would be able to purchase cannabis directly from a licensed producer.
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