Find cannabis industry guides, guidelines and requirements
Application guides
Before you look at any application guides, familiarize yourself with the Types of cannabis and hemp licences.
- Cannabis licensing application: Cultivation, processing and sale for medical purposes licences
- Cannabis licensing application: Analytical testing licence
- Cannabis licensing application: Research licence
- Cannabis licensing application: Cannabis drug licence
- Canada Revenue Agency cannabis licensing application: Cultivation and processing licences
Guidelines and requirements
| Resources | Type of licence |
|---|---|
| Activities with cannabis samples | Cultivation; Processing |
| Administrative monetary penalties for licence holders | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes; Research; Analytical testing; Cannabis drug |
| Adverse reaction reporting | Processing; Sale for medical purposes; Research |
| Annual regulatory fees and exemptions for licence holders | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes |
| Apply for an import or export permit | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes; Research; Analytical testing; Cannabis drug |
| Cannabis facility tours | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes; Research; Analytical testing; Cannabis drug |
| Cannabis Fees Order: Compliance and enforcement actions | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes |
| Cannabis laws and regulations | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes; Research; Analytical testing; Cannabis drug |
| Cannabis Tracking and Licensing System: User guide | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes; Research; Analytical testing; Cannabis drug |
| Cannabis tracking monthly reporting resources | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes |
| Cannabis tracking system: Monthly reporting guide | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes |
| Classification of ingestible cannabis products: Edible cannabis and cannabis extracts | Processing |
| Compliance and enforcement policy | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes; Research; Analytical testing |
| Consumer information: Cannabis | Sale for medical purposes |
| Contact information for licence holders, applicants and industry | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes; Research; Analytical testing; Cannabis drug |
| Cost recovery for the regulation of cannabis | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes |
| Directive on Physical Security Requirements for Controlled Substances and Drugs Containing Cannabis | Cannabis drug |
| Directory of nutrition facts table formats for edible cannabis | Processing |
| Expectation of ethical conduct | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes; Research; Analytical testing; Cannabis drug |
| Forward regulatory plan: 2025-2027 | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes; Research; Analytical testing; Cannabis drug |
| Getting started guide: Cannabis Tracking and Licensing System (CTLS) | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes; Research; Analytical testing; Cannabis drug |
| Good production practices | Cultivation; Processing; Sales for medical purposes; Analytical testing |
| Guidance on cannabis products with intoxicating cannabinoids other than delta-9-THC | Processing |
| Composition requirements for cannabis products | Cultivation; Processing |
| Guide to Health Canada inspections | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes |
| Health products containing cannabis or for use with cannabis | Research; Cannabis drug |
| Health warning messages | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes |
| How to determine what is controlled as cannabis under the Cannabis Act | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes; Research; Analytical testing; Cannabis drug |
| How to pay your fees | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes |
| Import and export by licence holders | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes |
| Information for new licence holders | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes |
| What to expect during an inspection | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes |
| Key investors | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes |
| Laboratories licensed to conduct activities with cannabis | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes; Research; Analytical Testing |
| Prohibitions referring to appeal to young persons | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes; Research; Analytical testing; Cannabis drug |
| List of cultivators, processors and medical cannabis sellers | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes |
| Manage your cultivation, processing or sale for medical purposes licence | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes |
| Mandatory testing for pesticide active ingredients: List and limits | Cultivation; Processing; Analytical testing |
| Mandatory testing for pesticide active ingredients: Requirements | Cultivation; Processing; Analytical testing |
| Notice of new product guide | Processing |
| Odour and odour control | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes; Research; Analytical testing; Cannabis drug |
| Organizational security plan | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes |
| Packaging and labelling for cannabis products | Cultivation; Processing; Sales for medical purposes |
| Pest control products for use on cannabis | Cultivation; Processing; Analytical testing |
| Physical security measures | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes; Research; Analytical testing; Cannabis drug |
| Preventative control plan for cannabis extracts and edible cannabis | Processing |
| Promotion of cannabis: Prohibitions and permissions | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes; Research; Analytical testing; Cannabis drug |
| Regulations under the Cannabis Act | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes; Research; Analytical testing; Cannabis drug |
| Renew your cultivation, processing and sale for medical purposes licences | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes |
| Report a side effect (adverse reaction): Licence holders | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes; Research |
| Reporting requirements for your licence | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes; Research; Analytical testing; Cannabis drug |
| Reporting the loss or theft of cannabis | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes; Research; Analytical testing; Cannabis drug |
| Security clearances: About the process | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes |
| Security clearances: Steps to apply | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes |
| Service standard for issuance of cannabis import and export permits | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes; Research; Analytical testing; Cannabis drug |
| Service standards for screening and review of new applications and amendments for cultivation, processing and sale for medical purposes licences | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes |
| Service standards for issuance, renewal and amendments to cannabis research licences | Research |
| Standardized cannabis symbol | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes |
| Tolerance limits for the net weight and volume declared on cannabis product labelling | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes |
| Transactional fees for licence holders | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes |
| Types of cannabis and industrial hemp licences | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes; Research; Analytical testing; Cannabis drug |
| Types of research with cannabis | Research |
| Updates for cannabis and industrial hemp | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes; Research; Analytical testing; Cannabis drug |
| Voluntary recall | Cultivation; Processing; Sale for medical purposes; Research |