New Proposed Cannabis Regulations

• Author: Omar Ha-Redeye
• Date: June 16, 2019

This week, Health Canada announced the new amendments to the Cannabis Regulations, which set rules governing for the legal production and sale of edible cannabis, cannabis extracts and cannabis topicals. The amended regulations will come into force on October 17, 2019, but will not be available to Canadians until mid-December 2019, due to the 60-day notice requirement for all federal license holders.

An overview of the amended regulations are available here, with a pdf summary here. The full regulations will be published in the Canada Gazette on June 26, 2019.

Some of the main features include placing a limit on the amount of THC in a package, and requirement child-resistant package to rude the risk of accidental consumption. Claims of health benefits and nutrition will be prohibited.