92% of licensed marijuana producers pass sales inspection as Health Canada boosts capacity
As Canadian licensed producers of medical cannabis scrambled to increase cultivation capacity in the months leading up to recreational legalization, the agency responsible for regulating marijuana cultivation was busy ramping up inspections and issuing new licences. Health Canada almost quadrupled the number of presale inspections conducted on licensed producers (LPs) between 2017 and 2018.
It conducted 22 presale inspections in 2017 and 71 in the first 10 months of 2018 – before the Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations (ACMPR) were repealed Oct. 17 and the Cannabis Act came into force.
Meanwhile, more than 600 applications were at various stages of review as of early November 2018.