Summary of Application requirements for cannabis cultivation, processing and medical sales licences
Related acts and regulations
From Health Canada
Overview
You must get a licence from Health Canada in order to:
- grow cannabis for sale (on a large or small scale, or for starting materials (e.g., seeds and plants)
- make cannabis products (on a large or small scale)
- sell cannabis for medical purposes
- do testing of cannabis
- do research with cannabis
Who this guide is for
Anyone who wants to apply for a cultivation, processing or sale for medical purposes licence under the Cannabis Regulations.
Applicants interested in research or analytical testing can refer to the:
In this guide
- Foreword
- Purpose
- Background
- Scope
- Definitions and abbreviations
- Application requirements: Getting started
- Application requirements: Creating an application
- Submitting an application and administrative procedures
- Contact us
- Feedback - Help us improve
- Appendix A: Key individuals at the site
- Appendix B: Cannabis licence classes and subclasses.
- Appendix C: Personnel security clearance application requirements
- Appendix D: Organizational security plan SOP priority areas
- Appendix E: Licensing record keeping attestation
- Appendix F: Application status meanings in CTLS
- Appendix G: Key investors
- Appendix H: Direct control - Security Clearances
- Appendix I: Security clearance: Consent and certification form
- Appendix J: Good production practices attestation for processing licences
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Details and history
Published: June 27, 2018
Updated: July 2, 2020
For assistance
For specific questions related to an applicant's individual licence application:
HC.licensing-cannabis-licences.SC@canada.ca.
Note: The email must clearly indicate the application file number, applicant name and subject of the correspondence in the subject line of the email. Meeting or teleconference requests are evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
For general questions about the Cannabis Act and its Regulations outside of a specific application, including those related to the Cannabis Tracking and Licensing System (CTLS):
cannabis@canada.ca.
Alternatively, you may contact the Controlled Substances and Cannabis Branch by phone at:
1-866-337-7705.
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