The Canadian government still has no publicly projected launch date for its mandatory review of the country’s 2018 recreational cannabis legalization law, more than eight months after the reappraisal was due to begin.
The delayed review is holding back progress toward much-needed regulatory reforms for Canada’s legal cannabis industry, according to one industry executive.
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“There’s a lot that needs to be done with the legislative review,” Rick Savone, senior vice president of global government relations at Alberta-based Aurora Cannabis and chair of the industry group Cannabis Council of Canada, told MJBizDaily.
“And because that’s being held up, very little is getting done from a regulatory or from a legislative perspective.”
The review, which will result in a report to parliament, was supposed to begin by October 2021, three years after Canada legalized recreational cannabis.
However, MJBizDaily reported in February that the review had not yet begun.
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