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ARTICLE · 28 SEPTEMBER 2022

Canada's Cannabis Act Receiving Long-Awaited Legislative Review

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On September 22, 2022, Canada's Minister of Health, Jean-Yves Duclos, and Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health, Carolyn Bennett, announced the overdue legislative review...

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On September 22, 2022, Canada's Minister of Health, Jean-Yves Duclos, and Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health, Carolyn Bennett, announced the overdue legislative review of Canada's Cannabis Act (Act).

CANNABIS ACT

The Act came into force on October 17, 2018, with two key objectives:

  1. To protect the health and safety of Canadians
  2. To provide for the establishment of a legal market to displace the illicit market

The Act requires the Minister of Health to conduct a review of the legislation three years after coming into force. The Minister of Health must table the independent panel's report to both Houses of Parliament 18 months after the independent review commences. Morris Rosenberg, a lawyer and former senior civil servant, has been appointed as the chair of the independent panel. However, the remaining four panellists have yet to be appointed. The Minister of Health indicated that efforts were being made

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