BC marijuana producer one step closer to selling extracts

Nanaimo-based Tilray, one of Canada’s 26 licensed medical marijuana producers, wants to start selling oils and extracts. It still needs Health Canada approval.

A licensed medical marijuana producer in B.C. is getting closer to selling marijuana extracts such as oils and liquid capsules, products traditionally in the realm of still-illegal dispensaries.

Nanaimo-based producer Tilray got a licence to produce cannabis oils from Health Canada in August. The federal regulator is letting licensed producers make – and eventually sell – fresh marijuana and cannabis oil as well as dried marijuana in light of a Supreme Court decision that patients have a right to these forms of the drug.

Tilray has since developed 20 products including cannabis drops, liquid capsules, oral spray and topical oil (all will come in a variety of dosages), VP of patient research Philippe Lucas said Monday.

It hopes to get permission to sell them...

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