Interesting facts about DINs in Canada from page https://www.canada.ca/en/health-can...s/fact-sheets/drug-identification-number.html.
Okay so apparently Cannabis is not a drug then. In that case it must be a "natural heath product". Under Canadian law, to sell a NHP you need a license. Do you suppose Canopy and the others who are selling dope got such a license? I find it unlikely, considering they would have provided such information as;
Obviously if they gave that information and it was accepted by HC then HC would be admitting that Cannabis has medical efficacy. Above text from http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2003-196/page-2.html#h-3 The LPs are complying with none of the requirements for NHPs, or your package would have labels with information on them. It's just completely illegal as it is. HC is ignoring their own licensing regs in this one particular case. How can they justify that? Either regs are for all or none. Their motive is obvious though, to avoid admitting that Cannabis is a medicine, because then the game would be over, wouldn't it.
- (f) the recommended conditions of use for the natural health product;
- (g) information that supports the safety and efficacy of the natural health product when it is used in accordance with the recommended conditions of use;
- (h) the text of each label that is proposed to be used in conjunction with the natural health product;
- (i) a copy of the specifications to which the natural health product will comply; and
- (j) one of the following attestations, namely,
- (i) if the natural health product is imported, an attestation by the applicant that the natural health product will be manufactured, packaged, labelled, imported, distributed and stored in accordance with the requirements set out in Part 3 or in accordance with requirements that are equivalent to those set out in Part 3, or
- (ii) if the natural health product is not imported, an attestation by the applicant that the natural health product will be manufactured, packaged, labelled, distributed and stored in accordance with requirements set out in Part 3.
They might say that anything on the restricted substances list isn't eligible for a license. Well, what is Canopy selling it as then? If it's not as a medical drug or a NHP then what the hell is it supposed to be that they are offering for sale to the public, to anyone who pays $150 to a cyber doctor?
It is a drug under the Criminal code of the CDSA. And yes it should be under the NHP, but it is still in the CDSA for now, and will continue to be so even after legalization where Trudeau said they will increase penalties for persons selling without authorization and they will be charged or giving it to a minor or trafficking in large amounts. So legalization is as Mark Emery has rightfully said, is really Prohibition 2.0. As to the LPs they are licensed to sell and produce under the former MMPR, that was struck in Allard et al as being completely " unconstitutional" because it created a barrier to access to us self producers or DG's a constitutional right, thus they created the ACMPR which is the MMAR blended with the LP MMPR.