City Council received a report at the Nov. 4 Council meeting on the considerations to be reviewed surrounding cannabis production and cultivation.
The report states that the Federal government, through Health Canada, is responsible for issuing licenses for personal medical use of cannabis and commercial production licenses. The City is entitled to regulate cannabis cultivation and production as it relates to the City’s ability to regulate land use within zoning by-laws and property standards by-laws. The City is entitled to adapt and enforce these by-laws to regulate property development to minimize nuisance such as odour and light pollution.
There are two types of commercial licenses available: cultivation licenses and processing licenses.
Cultivation licenses allow the growing of cannabis indoors or outdoors and, if authorized, the sale and distribution to other license holders and licensed retailers. Medical cannabis can only be permitted within a residential property if the person with the license lives on the property.
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