Learn About Laws
Federal, provincial and territorial governments share responsibility for overseeing the proposed new system.

The Federal government’s responsibilities are to set:
- Strict requirements for producers who grow and manufacture cannabis
- Industry-wide rules and standards, including:
- types of cannabis products available for sale
- packaging and labelling requirements for products
- standardized serving sizes and potency
- prohibitions on the use of certain ingredients
- good production practices
- tracking requirements of cannabis from seed to sale to keep it out of the illegal market
- restrictions on promotional activities