Canada Streamlining The Application Process To Get Cannabis To Market Quicker

Canada’s federal cannabis regulator is streamlining the application process to reduce the regulatory burden facing standard and micro-class marijuana processing license holders, a move that’s intended to give new and existing licensees the ability to bring products to market more quickly.

Health Canada said it will begin granting sales authorization for dried and fresh cannabis products to all standard and micro-class processing license holders during the initial licensing process, meaning those licensees will no longer have to apply for an amendment in order to sell to wholesalers.

The planned regulatory change will allow federal license holders to sell dried or fresh cannabis products to provincial wholesalers after the license has been amended.

The change applies only to dried and fresh cannabis products, so processors planning to sell other products, such as vape cartridges, will still need a sales amendment.

The change, which takes effect April 19, could shave months off the sales-amendment application process. Read More…