Cultivation, Processing, and Federal Sale Licenses
Shortly after the Senate passed Bill C-45, Health Canada released proposed requirements for cultivation, processing and federal sale licenses. The requirements stipulate which licenses will be permitted to be indoor or outdoor, physical security requirements, personnel security clearances, good production practices, reporting and record keeping, as well as the cannabis tracking system.
While the proposed requirements help shed some light on what these licenses will ultimately look like, what is still uncertain is exactly how new cultivation and processing licenses will be obtained and what the application process will look like.
If particular interest to many are micro-cultivation and micro-processing licenses. These licenses will be introduced for the purpose of enabling small scale entrepreneurs and growers to participate in the legal recreational market. Health Canada says these new license classes will “enable a diverse, competitive legal industry comprised of both large and small players in regions across the country”.
Thus far, the only information that Health Canada has revealed are the thresholds for cultivation areas and production quantity for these micro-scale licenses. It is expected that once the regulations are released, information on applications for these licenses will follow shortly thereafter.
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