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Cannabis Regulations

Version of section 101 from 2019-10-17 to 2024-04-01:


Marginal note:Things injurious to health

  •  (1) A cannabis extract, or a cannabis topical, that is a cannabis product — or that is contained in a cannabis accessory that is a cannabis product — must not contain or have on it anything that may cause injury to the health of the user when the cannabis product is used as intended or in a reasonably foreseeable way.

  • Marginal note:Exception

    (2) Subsection (1) does not, in respect of a cannabis extract that is intended to be combusted and inhaled, prohibit anything that may cause injury as a result of the intended combustion and inhalation.

  • Marginal note:Things that do not cause injury

    (3) For the purposes of subsection (1), a cannabis extract or a cannabis topical does not contain or have on it anything that may cause injury to the health of the user by reason only that it contains or has on it

    • (a) anything referred to in item 1 or 3 of Schedule 1 to the Act;

    • (b) residues of a pest control product that is registered for use on cannabis under the Pest Control Products Act, or that is otherwise authorized for use under that Act, if the residues are within any maximum residue limits that are specified in relation to cannabis under section 9 or 10 of that Act; or

    • (c) microbial or chemical contaminants — other than residues of a pest control product referred to in paragraph (b) — if the contaminants are within generally accepted tolerance limits for human use that are

      • (i) established in a publication referred to in Schedule B to the Food and Drugs Act, and

      • (ii) appropriate for the intended use and any reasonably foreseeable use of the cannabis product.

  • SOR/2019-206, s. 28

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