The Cannabis Pharmaceutical Industry in Canada falls under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act with the amended Marijuana for Medical Purposes Regulations (MMPR), regulations that amend the legislation allowing for this impending new leg of Big Pharma.
The MMPR legislation can be found at the following link:
The legislation should be continually monitored for new amendments and to ensure that LP's are producing quality medicine obtained from the precious plant material.
The legislation is far from perfect though and patients need to demand new amendments that are in the best interest of their health rather than that of Big Pharma's bottom line. For instance, under Division 5 - Packaging, Labelling and Shipping which starts at section 64, the following are two immediate call to action concerns:
Section 65 allows the LP an under shipment allowance of 5% yet an overage of only 1%.
Section 67 only requires the percentage of THC and CBN which are only found after decarbing (decarboxylating) the product by for example heating. The CBN cannabinoid is found only after the THC is spent and would certainly indicate how the corporation handled the harvest through to packaging. More useful to the patient and caregiver would be the requirement for disclosing all the detected cannabinoid acids found in the dried plant material that was tested just before final packaging.
As mentioned in a prior blog, Division 4 of the MMPR entitled Good Production Practices was recently amended under section 54 allowing for the use of any pesticide product registered or otherwise authorized for use under the Pest Control Products Act (Monsanto). The recent amendment to this section was very sneaky due to the word "unless".
54. Marihuana must not be treated — before, during or after the drying process — with a pest control product unless the product is registered for use on marihuana under the Pest Control Products Act or is otherwise authorized for use under that Act.
- SOR/2014-51, s. 7.
As the Licensed Producers try to go forward with the reality that their biggest competition are experienced growers, their products are far from attractive. Enough said.
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