Statement from Health Canada on Improving the Licensing of Production of Cannabis for Medical Purpos

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gb123

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May 26, 2017 - Ottawa, ON - Health Canada

OTTAWA – Health Canada is introducing several improvements to its medical cannabis program that aim to streamline the application process for issuing production licenses and enable increased production under the Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations (ACMPR).

Health Canada has drawn on nearly four years of experience to identify measures that can be put in place to streamline licensing and enable increased production of cannabis. These measures will also help ensure that Health Canada’s approach to licensing and oversight continues to be aligned with the regulations, the existing evidence of risks to public health and safety, and its approach to other regulated sectors.

Effective immediately, Health Canada is implementing the following measures:

  • Increasing the Department’s capacity to review and process applications.
  • Undertaking some stages of the review of the application concurrently.
  • Permitting licensed producers to manage production on the basis of their vault capacity.
  • Authorizing longer validity periods for licences and security clearances in accordance with the regulations.
  • Streamlining the review and approval of applications to modify or expand an existing production facility for licensed producers with a record of good compliance with the ACMPR.
Health Canada will continue to inspect all facilities before cultivation begins and before a licence to sell products to the public is issued. Henceforth, Health Canada will schedule this first inspection after it has determined an application meets the regulatory requirements and it has issued the licence to cultivate and once the producer is ready to initiate production in its facility. This approach will help provide successful applicants with a decision on their application as soon as possible while ensuring that all facilities are inspected as cultivation begins.

Licensed producers and applicants must continue to meet all of the requirements under the Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations (ACMPR). The ACMPR represents among the most robust frameworks in the world for ensuring effective control and regulation of cannabis for medical purposes. The ACMPR includes security and inventory control measures that help prevent diversion, as well as requirements for Good Production Practices that help provide individuals with access to quality-controlled cannabis for medical purposes. Since licensed production began in June 2013, licensed producers have established a solid record of compliance with the regulatory requirements and Health Canada will continue to ensure compliance through regular inspection.

In addition to the measures announced today, Health Canada has already dedicated additional resources to accelerate the processing of applications from individuals who are authorized to produce a limited amount of cannabis for their own medical purposes.

Health Canada will continue to work closely with patients, patient advocates and licensed producers to identify and act on opportunities to improve access to cannabis and service to Canadians.

Associated Links
Backgrounder - Improving the Licensing of Production of Cannabis for Medical Purposes

Contacts
Media Relations
Health Canada
613-957-2983

Public Inquiries
(613) 957-2991
1-866 225-0709
 
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kushhealingpowerofnature

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gb123 said:
May 26, 2017 - Ottawa, ON - Health Canada

OTTAWA – Health Canada is introducing several improvements to its medical cannabis program that aim to streamline the application process for issuing production licenses and enable increased production under the Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations (ACMPR).

Health Canada has drawn on nearly four years of experience to identify measures that can be put in place to streamline licensing and enable increased production of cannabis. These measures will also help ensure that Health Canada’s approach to licensing and oversight continues to be aligned with the regulations, the existing evidence of risks to public health and safety, and its approach to other regulated sectors.

Effective immediately, Health Canada is implementing the following measures:

  • Increasing the Department’s capacity to review and process applications.
  • Undertaking some stages of the review of the application concurrently.
  • Permitting licensed producers to manage production on the basis of their vault capacity.
  • Authorizing longer validity periods for licences and security clearances in accordance with the regulations.
  • Streamlining the review and approval of applications to modify or expand an existing production facility for licensed producers with a record of good compliance with the ACMPR.
Health Canada will continue to inspect all facilities before cultivation begins and before a licence to sell products to the public is issued. Henceforth, Health Canada will schedule this first inspection after it has determined an application meets the regulatory requirements and it has issued the licence to cultivate and once the producer is ready to initiate production in its facility. This approach will help provide successful applicants with a decision on their application as soon as possible while ensuring that all facilities are inspected as cultivation begins.

Licensed producers and applicants must continue to meet all of the requirements under the Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations (ACMPR). The ACMPR represents among the most robust frameworks in the world for ensuring effective control and regulation of cannabis for medical purposes. The ACMPR includes security and inventory control measures that help prevent diversion, as well as requirements for Good Production Practices that help provide individuals with access to quality-controlled cannabis for medical purposes. Since licensed production began in June 2013, licensed producers have established a solid record of compliance with the regulatory requirements and Health Canada will continue to ensure compliance through regular inspection.

In addition to the measures announced today, Health Canada has already dedicated additional resources to accelerate the processing of applications from individuals who are authorized to produce a limited amount of cannabis for their own medical purposes.

Health Canada will continue to work closely with patients, patient advocates and licensed producers to identify and act on opportunities to improve access to cannabis and service to Canadians.

Associated Links
Backgrounder - Improving the Licensing of Production of Cannabis for Medical Purposes

Contacts
Media Relations
Health Canada
613-957-2983

Public Inquiries
(613) 957-2991
1-866 225-0709
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Would be nice. I'm on week 11 now since they got my paper. 12 since I sent it in
 
The Hippy

The Hippy

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There will be so much stale cannabis once all these greed bags get going that nobody will sell any at all. They gonna be wondering what to do with all their unsellable weed.
There is already more weed than people need right now....so lets flood the market with even more....too funny. Shows how dumb they are and how blinded by greed.

BOYCOTT..send em back to hell where they belong.
 
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gb123

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they have enough shwags to choke on ......... So let em choke on it
We ALL KNOW THAT NO ONE IS GOING TO BUY POISON WHEN THEY CAN HAVE THEIR OWN FRESH CLEAN HERBS ALL YEAR ROUND .....

NO LP POISON SWAGS WILL EVER SELL

.....like its supposed to sell ;)
 
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gb123

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anytime someone yaps about poison shwags
Ill make sure they know they are being poisoned at the profit of greedy shwag producers...
that only have your wallet/health in mind LMAOROTFF
 
OtherSide

OtherSide

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gb123 said:
May 26, 2017 - Ottawa, ON - Health Canada

OTTAWA – Health Canada is introducing several improvements to its medical cannabis program that aim to streamline the application process for issuing production licenses and enable increased production under the Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations (ACMPR).

Health Canada has drawn on nearly four years of experience to identify measures that can be put in place to streamline licensing and enable increased production of cannabis. These measures will also help ensure that Health Canada’s approach to licensing and oversight continues to be aligned with the regulations, the existing evidence of risks to public health and safety, and its approach to other regulated sectors.

Effective immediately, Health Canada is implementing the following measures:

  • Increasing the Department’s capacity to review and process applications.
  • Undertaking some stages of the review of the application concurrently.
  • Permitting licensed producers to manage production on the basis of their vault capacity.
  • Authorizing longer validity periods for licences and security clearances in accordance with the regulations.
  • Streamlining the review and approval of applications to modify or expand an existing production facility for licensed producers with a record of good compliance with the ACMPR.
Health Canada will continue to inspect all facilities before cultivation begins and before a licence to sell products to the public is issued. Henceforth, Health Canada will schedule this first inspection after it has determined an application meets the regulatory requirements and it has issued the licence to cultivate and once the producer is ready to initiate production in its facility. This approach will help provide successful applicants with a decision on their application as soon as possible while ensuring that all facilities are inspected as cultivation begins.

Licensed producers and applicants must continue to meet all of the requirements under the Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations (ACMPR). The ACMPR represents among the most robust frameworks in the world for ensuring effective control and regulation of cannabis for medical purposes. The ACMPR includes security and inventory control measures that help prevent diversion, as well as requirements for Good Production Practices that help provide individuals with access to quality-controlled cannabis for medical purposes. Since licensed production began in June 2013, licensed producers have established a solid record of compliance with the regulatory requirements and Health Canada will continue to ensure compliance through regular inspection.

In addition to the measures announced today, Health Canada has already dedicated additional resources to accelerate the processing of applications from individuals who are authorized to produce a limited amount of cannabis for their own medical purposes.

Health Canada will continue to work closely with patients, patient advocates and licensed producers to identify and act on opportunities to improve access to cannabis and service to Canadians.

Associated Links
Backgrounder - Improving the Licensing of Production of Cannabis for Medical Purposes

Contacts
Media Relations
Health Canada
613-957-2983

Public Inquiries
(613) 957-2991
1-866 225-0709
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kushhealingpowerofnature said:
Would be nice. I'm on week 11 now since they got my paper. 12 since I sent it in
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Only mention of speeding up personal production applications was saying they already have.. what the fuck? Lol delivered almost 4 weeks and they still havent opened my envelope yet
 
TheRealDman

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One can only laugh when Hellth Canaduh uses phrases like..."as well as requirements for Good Production Practices that help provide individuals with access to quality-controlled cannabis for medical purposes."
 
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gb123

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just a reminder who this fuck is and what hes about..

KIm Derrry

A former high-ranking colleague and friend of MP Bill Blair, the Liberal government’s point man on marijuana legalization, will lobby the ex-Toronto police chief in hopes of ensuring a tightly controlled system in which only licensed firms are allowed to grow the lucrative drug.

Kim Derry, a deputy chief of the Toronto Police Service under Mr. Blair, is a promoter of marijuana facility THC Meds Ontario Inc., along with George Smitherman, a former Ontario Liberal deputy premier. Mr. Blair, put in charge of the marijuana file last week, will play a key role in determining who gets to grow the product once it is legalized.

While some growers want loosely regulated production across the country, the operators of companies such as THC Meds say production licences should be limited to professional operations.

In an interview, Mr. Derry said the government should aim to “get rid of the goons” who are currently in the marijuana business, calling for tight regulations on who can grow and sell the product.

“If there isn’t, it will be the wild west,” Mr. Derry said. “If you just open it up and allow everybody to grow this stuff and distribute it however they want, it will be an absolute mess.”

Mr. Derry said he’s looking forward to making his views known to Mr. Blair. “He and I have been friends for 40 odd years, so I’ll certainly give him my opinion, whether he asks for it or not,” said Mr. Derry, the security adviser for THC Meds Ontario, which is seeking a licence for a medical marijuana operation north of Toronto.

In a separate interview, Mr. Smitherman said Mr. Blair’s appointment to oversee the legalization of marijuana bodes well for companies like his.

“I don’t think we are going toward a model where legalization means you should grow some stuff in your backyard,” said Mr. Smitherman. “I’m of the opinion that a preponderance of caution around growing and distribution will guide the government’s model.”

Mr. Blair could not be reached by The Globe and Mail after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called on him to be a lead player on the issue of the legalization of marijuana.

To this point, much of the public debate surrounding the legalization of marijuana has focused on who would sell the product to the Canadian public, with provincial liquor control boards among the early favourites.

Still, Vancouver lawyer Kirk Tousaw said it is also important to liberalize the production of cannabis, pointing to American states where companies can sell the products that they grow.

“If we treat this like nuclear waste, it won’t work. Even if we treat it like alcohol, it may not work that well,” he said. “You have got to allow people to grow it for themselves.… It’s not really legalization if you are kicking people’s doors down and hauling them off to jail for growing the plant.”

Mr. Tousaw, who has represented many clients in high-profile marijuana-related cases, said Mr. Blair’s law-enforcement credentials are a cause for some concern at this point.

“People are creatures of their histories. If what you have seen of cannabis is gang violence and those kinds of things, I think you will have a perspective that is not necessarily in tune with the reality on the ground,” Mr. Tousaw said.

Still, he said he is looking forward to seeing who will be appointed to the Liberal government’s promised federal-provincial task force that will conduct consultations on the issue.

Mr. Tousaw said there will be problems if the new model is underregulated, which means public safety goals would not be achieved, or overregulated, in which the legal business would not be able to compete with the existing black market.

First elected to the House in the past election, Mr. Blair was appointed last December as the parliamentary secretary to Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould.

“[Mr.] Blair's experience and background in public safety will be a great asset to the government's work to ensure a careful and thoughtful approach to the legalization and regulation of marijuana,” Ms. Wilson-Raybould’s spokesman said in a statement last Friday.

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gb123

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Replying to @JodieEmery
We should ask Bills old Deputy Chief, Kim Derry, he works with THC Meds Ontario with George Smitherman. Guarantee Bill consults them.
 
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gb123

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  1. Jodie Emery‏@JodieEmery



    Jodie Emery Retweeted Bill Blair

    But everyone knows these companies want to serve the RECREATIONAL market, not medical. Abuse of gov't program designed for medical patients?

    Jodie Emery added,


    Bill Blair@BillBlair
    Health Canada introduces new measures to streamline licensing and increase capacity of Medical Cannabis producers https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/news/2017/05/statement_from_healthcanadaonimprovingthelicensingofproductionof.html…6:10 AM - 27 May 2017
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      2. Jodie Emery‏@JodieEmery 8h8 hours ago

    Replying to @JodieEmery
    The legal medical cannabis system Licensed Producers operate under exists by court order to protect Charter rights of sick/dying Canadians.

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  3. Jodie Emery‏@JodieEmery 8h8 hours ago



    How can LP companies be allowed to use a patient-only court-ordered system to build up business plans for a recreational commodity market?

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  5. Jodie Emery‏@JodieEmery 8h8 hours ago



    Patients are already failing to get the medical cannabis they require - by court order - from gov't-approved LPs. Charter protections unmet?

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  7. Jodie Emery‏@JodieEmery 8h8 hours ago



    I'm curious how patients feel knowing they don't have the access LPs are required to provide because it's being grown for recreational sale.

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  9. Jodie Emery‏@JodieEmery 8h8 hours ago



    Prime Minister Trudeau even admitted to @vicecanada in his (non)answer to my question that everyone knows recreational users are joining LPs

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gb123

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Mr. Derry, the security adviser for THC Meds Ontario, which is seeking a license for a medical marijuana operation north of Toronto.
 
GrowRock

GrowRock

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We won't see true legalization for another 20 years with this rate of corruption/racket from the former RCMP officers and politicians.....what a joke so they want to sell it to us but if we grow it ourselves or if we drive with it our systems. They want to charge us and lock us up....fuck you bill Blair
 
zoic

zoic

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gb123 said:
Since licensed production began in June 2013, licensed producers have established a solid record of compliance with the regulatory requirements and Health Canada will continue to ensure compliance through regular inspection.
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WTF. Apparently not working, or are they just going to gloss over the 7 recalls. Also, they seemed more concerned about the "vault" than about the quality of the meds. Who in their right mind would want to steal that schwag anyway.
:wall:
 
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gb123

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No worries Zoic.
They are DEAD in the water and barely floating.... as things stand now..they cant tread water for another two years :-P

You will soon see MMJ companies start to fold. That will in turn put pressure on the Government and they will push it along ...but the LP's will continue to lose!!:-P........Not realizing they have NO MARKET but THINK they do

We all know different.. we all know the business

They dont have a clue.. 8-)
 
zoic

zoic

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gb123 said:
No worries Zoic.
They are DEAD in the water and barely floating.... as things stand now..they cant tread water for another two years :-P

You will soon see MMJ companies start to fold. That will in turn put pressure on the Government and they will push it along ...but the LP's will continue to lose!!:-P........Not realizing they have NO MARKET but THINK they do

We all know different.. we all know the business

They dont have a clue.. 8-)
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Me worry? Man I am almost unflappable. The only thing I was worried about this year was when my supply line dried up (temporarily) and my poor wife had to resort to Tweed. That worried me deeply. I dug a little deeper and created a few new supply lines, before she managed to smoke more than a few grams. Now when I ask her which strain she wants to smoke today she says "not the Tweed one". :mrgreen:

She still will not let me chuck it though, seeing as how she already paid for it. ?? :wall:

I suppose I could flog it off on a friend, but then what kind of friend would I be exactly. :oops:
 
The Hippy

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Well Zoic you might as well use it and get your monies worth now. Soon you'll be better off.....maybe Monday...lol
 
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