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Getting a DIN is in every producer's and patient's best interest. Once the system is up and running the producers will no doubt form a growers association to conduct common research and lobby the government. Thinking that this would come about from any single producer is silly IMO. For anyone...

The QA regulations imposed in this system are pretty much in line with any other herbal product, and there is good reason for these tests. I know for a fact that some of the larger producers under the MMAR are using pesticides with no oversight or requirement to test for residues. These QA...

I think it is just a marketing strategy. The current names out there are not overly professional. If you are trying to look like a proper medical producer the new names may seem more professional. That being said, there is always more than one way to skin a cat and there may be room for the...

Pesticides in Canada are registered for specific crops. There are not any registered for Cannabis yet, so you can not use any. If I am out of date on this please post the link, but when I checked there were none. As such, the main control will be good sanitation practices and maybe some...

We had them contact us to move the application forward and we have been in direct contact with them. Unfortunately we have hit some zoning issues (which is not HC related) and need to find a new location, so our application will need to be re-submitted. Regardless, our application was moving...

Nowhere in there does it say that you have conditional approval, only that your plans are in line with the regulations. I asked this on the phone and was specifically told that a site inspection is not a conditional approval, nor does it mean you will be approved. I suspect this was just what...

I was told quite the opposite. They told me that getting a site inspection is not a conditional approval and that there is no guarantee given or implied. I assume that if you get a site inspection you have essentially been pre-approved, but that dosnt help too much with investors.

I asked HC about this and they told me that there is no guarantee at all. I assume that if you make it to the site inspection stage you have essentially been approved based on your plan, but that is not enough to convince most potential investors. Even if the lease is conditional, you still...

The problem is that you dont get a license until you pass the site inspection, which means you need to build/renovate the facility first at great expense. It would have been a lot easier if they would have given conditional licenses prior to the site inspection based on meeting what was stated...

If it is zoned residential I think you are out of luck. I think one of the big reasons for the new regulations is to prevent residential grow ops.

Yeah, it's not perfect and is only validated for THC. I would prefer to have a method that measures both forms of THC anyway, rather than just total THC so the decarboxylation step may be unnecessary (although this method would not longer be validated if you skipped it). The GC method may be...

http://www.unodc.org/documents/scientific/ST-NAR-40-Ebook.pdf

Good info. Here is another free link with a lot of info, including a validated HPLC method, from the United Nations office on drugs and crime. This one is nice because it is written with clear instructions and it is hard to argue the validity of UN methods IMO.

Perhaps you would be so kind as to provide an example or two from the act? I'm sure your lawyer would have given you a few specific aspects that would be limiting right? I have somehow missed these "plain as day" facts. Also, where does the specific number 60 come from?

That is a story of fools. They expected to get $3500/pound wholesale and built their business on this? That is nearly $8/g, wholesale, all the way up. In the end they sold it for $2000/pound wholesale (about $4.50/g), which is pretty good given that this is the wholesale price. So yes, if...

I like how everyone makes up facts about this. Is there anywhere that anyone has said there will only be 60 licensed granted? No? Well there is somewhere (health Canada's website) that specifically states that this is not the case. That being said, I dont think it will be unlimited and they...

No point calling health Canada, you need to call the local zoning/planning office. You will probably be able to use agricultural, some industrial, or potentially some commercial, really depends on your municipality.

Back to the original post, no one has been licensed yet, so while some growers may meet the requirements nothing is set yet. A word of warning for anyone out there that is interested in participating in the new system is that you can only be registered with a single company, so you would be...

There were a couple small items. I dont want to give all the details, but I will say that they were all trivial items such as not providing a telephone number for the building (which dosn't have phone service yet).

We also received a file number, but they requested more information as our application was "incomplete". We subsequently submitted the additional information (very minor details) and they are evaluating it, so incomplete applications will still be evaluated if/when the remaining information is...