How does that work in detail over there?
You have a permit for a certain amount per day, and then there's the general permission to grow up to 4 plants in Canada.
And now you could apply for another permit, medical in this case, and that would allow up to 92 plants? Where does the number 92 come from? And which applications do you have to file where, and how much does that cost?
What about commercial licensing? If you have that, and you grow stuff, do you have to deliver it to specific places or can you also sell it yourself if you pay the taxes?
If there's a website where one can get this information I would be interested; mostly out of curiosity ofc, I'm not in Canada.
Right off the bat the ACMPR, Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations, is basically a permission slip from your doctor to use pot for whatever medical condition you believe pot is best for you and he/she agrees. It only lasts for a year then needs renewal. When he fills out the form he puts in how many grams/day you are allowed. I tried for over 10 years to get a doc up here in northern Alberta to sign for me and eventually while out in BC moving my mom found a doc there to sign on my 2nd visit. He put in 8g/day after my explaining I was after hi-CBD pot mainly. He was happy he didn't have to go thru a 20 min talk about how to use it or any of the usual BS. I could have taught him a lot. No cost to me and he just billed my provincial medical for 2 unspecified visits. The next year I went to see my doc here just to get a slip that confirmed I suffered from arthritis and chronic depression to take back to BC as that doc there now worked at a pot clinic and they needed something like that. $275/yr to use their services but they were only going to charge me $150 as I was broke and on disability at the time.
But my doc, who denied me years earlier, decided to sign for me and has since tho now left to work in BC so I need a new doc to sign. I may travel there to get him to do it if he still will. He like most docs we get up here are imported from South Africa or elsewhere tho SA seems to be where most come from. He bumped my dosage up to 12g/day when I asked and a couple years later signed for my wife at 6g/day when she was diagnosed with liver tumours which have shrunk or disappeared since she started taking RSO a couple years ago. just light doses but enough to knock most stoners out if they took her dose right off the bat. My prostate has shrunk by 30% since I started taking it a few months ago and my PSA dropped by almost 2 full points too so no damned cancer for now!
Once you have the docs paper you can apply to Health Canada for a permit to grow your own meds. 5 plants indoors and 2 outdoors for every g/day you are allowed. If you live down closer to the US border you can grow huge pot trees outside and get a huge crop but up here around 56N you need autos to have the plants finish before the snow flies and you don't get lots from them but the gov't doesn't make allowances for that.
I've been growing here for 20 years and never needed anyone's permission so don't apply to grow. I don't want to be on any gov't hit list if they decide to crack down on growers.
There are a lot of clinics that will sign for you and charge based on how many grams/day you ask for and you can ask for lots if you got the cash which is totally unethical and illegal but HC lets them get away with it. Nobody needs a permit to grow 500 plants to supply their personal medical needs so they sell their excess to the black market or their buddies at BM prices.. I could have paid $400 for the med permit and another $400 for the grow permit years ago when I couldn't get a doc to legitimately sign but felt it was wrong so didn't out of principle rightly or wrongly. I don't sell pot as a rule and give away quite a bit to a half dozen friends. Somebody wants a bunch then I might take a donation to my electric bill but still at less than half the price of street pot or 'legal' stuff.
None of that is for commercial use and there are all sorts of hoops to jump thru to get into that. I'm not interested so don't know lots about it but it is easier than it was a couple years ago. To sell it you have to go thru your provincial regulatory board after it has passed tests as safe. Not cheap.
As you've read in this thread there's not a lot of money in it any more. Huge glut on the market especially with the border shut down as a lot of our pot went south when it used to all come from the south. I used to run down to Bellingham, WA to score a few lbs from my bro-in-law and run it up to make double my money selling it to friends. Mexican brick weed back then.