The COVID-19 pandemic is not expected to cut into the planting season for LPs with licences to grow outdoors.
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- The number of Health Canada approvals for outdoor growing jumped 27% between February and the end of March. The first outdoor licenses were granted last May; there are now 42.
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Separately, Health Canada’s plan to discuss the proposed “Cannabis Health Product” (CHP) designation for CBD products and other non-intoxicating REC products has been pushed back. The deadline to nominate an advisory committee has been delayed to May 11.
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High Hopes, the program offering MED to residents of Vancouver’s Downtown East Side as an opioid-reduction measure, is attempting to enter the legal market. The organization is shifting to connecting patients with home- and micro-growers.
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Canada attempted REC legalization once before, in 2003, under the Liberal government of prime minister Jean Chrétien. Here’s how that project failed.
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