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21st March 2023
Canada: Health Canada has updated the fees laid out in the Cannabis Fees Order, following the 2022 Consumer Price Index of 6.8%. The new rates will apply from 1st April.
1st March 2023
Canada: Statistics Canada has for the first time published tax revenues from sales of recreational cannabis, which amounted to CAD1.55bn (USD1.14bn) from April 2021 to March 2022.
27th January 2023
- Canada: Health Canada has asked some federally licensed cannabis companies to halt the sales of certain ingestible cannabis products that are incorrectly classified and labelled as extracts rather than edibles, media reports. With regard to packaging restrictions, the distinction is important because any cannabis product classified as an extract has more allowable THC per package than a product classified as an edible. Health Canada has determined that the products in question are consumed in the same manner as food, and therefore fit the definition of edible cannabis.
11th January 2023
Canada - British Columbia: The provincial government has published the findings of a survey launched in spring 2022 on non-medical cannabis-consumption spaces such as cannabis lounges and other establishments with cannabis for sale and use on-site. It found 61% of telephone respondents and 34% of online respondents supported cannabis consumption spaces. Most people who use cannabis supported them, as did cannabis retailers, producers, and industry associations. Consumption spaces were generally not supported by non-users, or by some public health and safety organisations or local governments. No decisions on consumption spaces have yet been made, pending further analysis of issues raised in the survey.
16th December 2022
- Canada: Three former CannTrust executives have been acquitted of fraud and related charges after the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) accused them of unlicensed cannabis production, press reports. The charges stemmed from allegedly unlicensed grow rooms that the cannabis company oversaw in 2018 and 2019 and misstatements to investors. The OSC admitted that it no longer had a reasonable prospect of convicting the three former executives, which led to the court's acquittal.
12th December 2022
- Canada: Health Canada has announced that it approved amendments to the Cannabis Act that affect cannabis research and the legal limit for possessing cannabis-containing beverages. Adults may now possess up to 17.1 l (equal to 48 cans of 355 ml each) of cannabis beverages for recreational purposes, an increase from the previous limit of 2.1 l (equal to five cans of 355 ml each). Amendments were also approved to change regulations on cannabis research for non-medical purposes with human participants in an attempt to make such research easier. The amendments are already in effect.
2nd December 2022
- Canada - Newfoundland: The province of Newfoundland and Labrador has lifted its ban on cannabis vaping products, but only for products that do not contain any flavours besides natural terpenes and cannabis flavour, press reports. The province banned cannabis vapes in 2019, and the reversal comes as an attempt to compete with illicit sales.
29th November 2022
Canada - Manitoba: A bill has been introduced that would eliminate the “social responsibility” tax on cannabis sales in Manitoba, which is currently 6%, imposed on cannabis retailers. The provincial government is in discussions with federal authorities to piggyback on the federal excise tax on cannabis by increasing the excise tax to CAD1, of which CAD0.75 would go to the provincial government, as in all other provinces, press reports. If passed, the social responsibility tax would be eliminated from 1st January 2023.
28th November 2022
- Canada: Health Canada has announced the members of its expert panel that will lead the mandatory review of the Cannabis Act to "provide independent, expert advice to both ministers on progress made towards achieving the Act's objectives and help identify potential areas for improving the functioning of the legislation". The panel of five will be chaired by Morris Rosenberg, who has been in various departments in the Canadian government for more than 30 years. Health Canada must submit a report on the review to both houses of Parliament within 18 months of the review beginning.
4th November 2022
- Canada: Ottawa Public Health (OPH) plans to make several recommendations to Health Canada as part of the Cannabis Act Review that was launched in September, press reports. Among OPH's recommendations are to ban flavouring agents in extracts, to ban sprinkles, colours, and shapes in cannabis products that appeal to children, and to require edible products to bear a THC symbol on packaging.
20th October 2022
Canada - Yukon: The Yukon government has turned over all cannabis retail locations and online sales to private licensees, as the Yukon Liquor Corporation has stopped its cannabis sales, press reports. The Yukon territory, with a population of about 40,000, is the second-smallest province or territory by population in Canada.
