Agriculture committee  Medical cannabis and recreational cannabis are all in one. You're just selling from the recreational market to the medical market, so it's just making it available. It goes back to allowing quality craft product being available to the medical market and ways of making licensing e

Agriculture committee  I'm not quite understanding what your question is.

Agriculture committee  No, that is not correct. We are able to say that we are certified organic, but that is an issue as well with organic cannabis because we are not recognized as an organic product by the Canadian government and its independent regulatory certifications.

Agriculture committee  Yes, a huge issue we're having is telling the story of our growing practices, for example. We're in live soil and are using mountain water. There's the care that our team puts into it, and none of this can be shared, even in a picture on the label. This is a big thing that needs

Agriculture committee  I think a reasonable situation for that is what we do in our regional district. They can have a smell aspect to the regional laws of what is allowable. It's very easy to contain that as far as the production of cannabis goes in maintaining the smells. They are probably improperly

Agriculture committee  The main obstacles are the cost of transitioning and the lack of support in helping these people transition to the legal market. Unless you have vast business experience, you can't be a farmer and transition. They have set it up in such a way that it is impossible for a farmer t

Agriculture committee  I'm sorry about that. I would like the regulations relaxed for cultivation, so that we can move forward in the same way as the wine industry as far as marketing and distribution go along those lines. I think that would be the biggest help for a small producer.

Agriculture committee  The difference between a micro cultivator and a medical cultivator is the federal licence. The licence allows you to sell medically. There's no difference in growing for medical or recreational. It's the sale of it. We have a federal sales/medical licence through Health Canada.

Agriculture committee  Yes, my size restriction is based on the canopy. If you look down on the plant canopy, in micro cultivation, we're limited to 200 square metres. It's about 2100 square feet of actual plant size. The building can be bigger, but the plant canopy is limited to that size. For expand

Agriculture committee  I don't know the square metre. I know the square foot. On average, it is....because it depends on your style of growing. You can either have large plants or small plants, depending on the style of growing. I'd say that on average you'd have, per plant, in the style that we're d

Agriculture committee  Yes. For an experienced, quality grower, I think that would be more reasonable.

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much for having me. My name is Timothy Deighton. I'm representing the micro cultivators of B.C. and Canada, and I want to give a little bit of scope on what I have been through and some of the process. I'm the director of Sweetgrass. I live in Ymir, British Colum