Here’s a quick guide to help you navigate this process:
✔️ Assess Your Goals
Determine what you want to do with cannabis and how you plan to sell it. Assess how you intend to scale your operations and whether a micro or standard licence best suits your objectives.
✔️ Choose Your Licence Type
Depending on your goals, select the appropriate licence category for your business operations.
✔️ Grow Cannabis
Cultivation licences (micro, nursery, or standard) allow you to grow cannabis, possess it, and conduct limited processing activities.
✔️ Process Cannabis
Processing licences (micro and standard) enable you to process harvested cannabis and industrial hemp — including drying, trimming, packaging, and related operations.
✔️ Sell Cannabis for Medical Purposes
Obtain a sale for medical purposes licence to distribute packaged and labelled cannabis to registered clients for medical use.
✔️ Test Cannabis
Analytical testing licences allow authorized entities to conduct testing and research on cannabis products.
✔️ Research with Cannabis
A research licence is required for activities such as sensory testing or any research beyond authorized cultivation and processing activities.
✔️ Produce and Sell Drugs Containing Cannabis
A cannabis drug licence is necessary for manufacturing, selling, distributing, or receiving drugs that contain cannabis as an ingredient.
✔️ Grow, Produce, and Sell Industrial Hemp
An industrial hemp licence is essential for any activity related to industrial hemp production, processin