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Free Selling It Right study guide: 199 key points from the Cannabis Control and Licensing Act, Cannabis Licensing Regulation and LCRB Cannabis Retail Store Licence Handbook in plain words, organised by topic, each topic linked to its practice questions.

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This study guide collects our notes on every topic of the Selling It Right B.C. Cannabis Retail Certification Test on one page: 199 short points in our own words, grouped by topic and by handbook section. Read it from top to bottom before your first practice test, or jump to a topic from the list below.

Each topic ends with a link to its practice questions, so you can check what you just read straight away, and a link to the official chapter for the full wording. The notes summarise the Cannabis Control and Licensing Act, Cannabis Licensing Regulation and LCRB Cannabis Retail Store Licence Handbook from the Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch (LCRB), Province of British Columbia; they do not replace it, and where our notes and the official source differ, the official source wins.

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Selling It Right certification

Who must hold Selling It Right (licensees, sellers, supervisors, delivery persons, marketers), the two-year certificate, training records and the social responsibility poster.

Practise Selling It Right certification questionsFlashcardsOfficial chapter

Cannabis Control and Licensing Act (CCLA) ss. 113–116; Cannabis Licensing Regulation (CLR) s. 42.1

  • The LCRB general manager's training program for cannabis is Selling It Right (the "general training program").
  • A Selling It Right certificate expires 2 years after it is issued, and the certificate shows the expiry date.
  • A retail store licensee must not operate the store unless it holds a Selling It Right certificate; for a corporation an authorized signing officer, for a partnership a partner (general partner in a limited partnership), for a sole proprietorship the owner, for an Indigenous nation its named representative.
  • An adult must not be involved in selling cannabis in a store, or supervise cannabis sales, without a Selling It Right certificate.
  • Delivery persons who are individuals must hold Selling It Right to deliver cannabis for a retail store.
  • Marketing licensees, their designated representatives and adults who promote cannabis for them also need Selling It Right.
  • Breaking the training rules is an offence under the CCLA.

Responsible selling training

  • Licensees must ensure employees who sell or supervise sales, and delivery persons, hold Selling It Right.
  • Training records must show the person's name, the certificate number and the expiry date (CLR s. 24 (8)).
  • At least one LCRB social responsibility poster must be displayed in a conspicuous place in the retail sales area; posters are mailed free by the LCRB.
  • Selling It Right is an interactive self-study course on the law and how to sell cannabis responsibly; it is offered through responsibleservicebc.gov.bc.ca.

What is Selling It Right

  • The course teaches the effects of cannabis (including co-use with alcohol), signs of intoxication, legal responsibilities and consequences, checking ID to prevent underage sales, and handling interventions such as asking a customer to leave.
  • Required for all non-medical cannabis retail store licensees, adults who sell non-medical cannabis in a private or government store, and those who market non-medical cannabis.
  • A cannabis worker qualification from another province does not allow work in a B.C. licensed cannabis store.

Minors and checking ID

Age 19, keeping minors out of stores and jobs, the two-piece ID rule with primary and secondary examples, fake ID, proxy buying and minors in delivery.

Practise Minors and checking ID questionsFlashcardsOfficial chapter

Definitions

  • A "minor" is anyone under 19; an "adult" is 19 or older.
  • In B.C. you must be 19 or older to use, buy, possess or grow non-medical cannabis and to enter a cannabis store (gov.bc.ca possession and purchasing limits).

Minors

  • No person may sell or supply cannabis or a cannabis accessory to a minor, or allow a minor to consume or possess cannabis at a place under their control.
  • A licensee or employee must not allow a minor to enter or be in the store, or to work in an office or other place associated with the cannabis business (for example a delivery vehicle).
  • Minors may not enter government cannabis stores either, including infants with a parent (gov.bc.ca Cannabis and youth).
  • Defence for licensees and staff: they required the person to produce prescribed ID, examined it and had reason to believe it was authentic.

Prescribed identification (two pieces)

  • Primary ID (one of): passport; driver's licence with photo and date of birth; government-issued ID card with photo and date of birth.
  • Secondary ID: one other piece showing the person's name and their signature and/or photo.
  • Primary examples: Photo BC Services Card, citizenship card, status card, firearms Possession and Acquisition Licence.
  • Secondary examples: BC Services Card / CareCard, ICBC interim licence, student card, credit or bank card, Canadian Blood Services donor card, Pleasure Craft Operator Card, rewards card, National Defence ID.
  • Expired or foreign ID may be accepted if readable, the patron is recognizable from the photo and the primary/secondary criteria are met.
  • LCRB recommends posting "no minors" signs at the entrance, checking ID whenever in doubt, recording the steps taken, and refusing if no ID is produced and doubt remains.

Other minor rules

  • Minors may not market, advertise or promote cannabis, and businesses may not let them take part.
  • No one may ask or allow a minor to buy cannabis for them.
  • A minor may not possess, consume, produce, supply, sell or buy cannabis or cannabis accessories.
  • A minor may not present altered, borrowed (issued to someone else), forged or fraudulent ID to get cannabis or enter a cannabis store.
  • A minor may not drive a vehicle with cannabis in it unless it is unopened original packaging, not readily accessible, or non-flowering plants.

Other duties

  • Licensees must not sell or supply non-cannabis products (accessories, bags, cards) to minors either.
  • Delivery persons and common carriers must not be minors, must not have a minor in the delivery vehicle, and must not deliver to a minor.

gov.bc.ca Cannabis and youth; CLR Schedule 2

  • An adult, including a parent, who supplies cannabis to a minor or knowingly lets a minor possess or consume it at home faces a fine up to $10,000 or up to six months in jail.
  • LCRB penalty for selling or supplying to a minor (first contravention): $7,000–$11,000 or a 7–11 day licence suspension; for letting a minor enter the store: $3,000–$7,000 or 3–7 days.

Intoxication and conduct in the store

Refusing sales to anyone showing signs of intoxication, asking people to leave and the 24-hour rule, violent or disorderly conduct, weapons, calling police and helping people leave safely.

Practise Intoxication and conduct in the store questionsFlashcardsOfficial chapter

Intoxicated persons and conduct

  • A licensee or employee must not sell cannabis to anyone intoxicated by alcohol or a drug or showing signs of intoxication, and must not let such a person enter or remain in the store.
  • No person may supply cannabis to someone who is intoxicated or shows signs of intoxication (s. 79).
  • Staff must not allow violent or disorderly conduct or unlawful activity, or let in anyone they know has a weapon without lawful excuse ("lawful excuse" does not include self-protection).
  • Staff may ask a person to leave, or refuse entry, if they believe the person is intoxicated or shows signs of it, or their presence is undesirable.
  • A person asked to leave must go and must not come back within 24 hours; a peace officer may arrest without warrant someone who stays or returns.

Terms and conditions

  • Licensees must take reasonable measures so the store does not disturb people nearby (e.g. outdoor lighting, supervising parking, signs).
  • If staff reasonably believe violent or disorderly conduct has happened, is happening or may happen, police must be called as soon as it is safe.
  • Reasonable steps must be taken so an intoxicated person leaves safely, such as staying within earshot and line of sight until they have left, if safe.
  • If someone returns within 24 hours of being asked to leave, police must be notified.
  • Delivery persons and carriers must not deliver to anyone intoxicated or showing signs of intoxication.
  • If a patron brings illicit cannabis into the store, staff ask them to leave immediately and record the incident.
  • Temporary repair or construction workers must be supervised.
  • Security staff hired for a store must hold a valid B.C. security worker licence.
  • Violent or disorderly conduct means behaviour that would make a reasonable person believe their safety is threatened.

Public intoxication

  • A person intoxicated from cannabis must not be or remain in a public place; police may arrest without a warrant.

Penalties

  • Selling to someone showing signs of intoxication, or letting an intoxicated person enter or remain: first contravention $3,000–$7,000 or 3–7 days' suspension.
  • Allowing violent or disorderly conduct, unlawful activity or a person with a weapon: first contravention $7,000–$11,000 or 7–11 days.

signs and causes

  • Selling It Right teaches staff to recognize signs of intoxication, including from cannabis combined with alcohol.
  • Overconsumption can cause anxiety, paranoia, rapid heartbeat and other unpleasant effects; alcohol intensifies cannabis effects and can cause nausea or vomiting.
  • A person may not feel impaired but still be under the influence of cannabis (gov.bc.ca Cannabis and driving).

Products, limits and packaging

What a store may sell, the 30-gram and four-plant limits per transaction, equivalency amounts, unopened packaging, smell and touch jars, minimum prices and legal supply through the LDB.

Practise Products, limits and packaging questionsFlashcardsOfficial chapter

What a store may sell

  • Permitted: cannabis (not budding or flowering plants); cannabis accessories; non-consumable cannabis-related items (e.g. books, apparel, art with cannabis motifs); approved bags (paper, plastic, reusable); prepaid purchase cards for the store's own items; delivery of those items.
  • Not permitted: snacks, tobacco, services other than delivery, organic solvents, and items whose promotion breaks the federal Cannabis Act.
  • Prepaid purchase cards may not exceed $300 in value.
  • The only business in the store is selling those items, handing over online/phone orders, and an ATM.
  • Gift packages are allowed if no extra packaging fee is charged other than for approved bags.

Limits and packaging

  • Maximum per transaction: 30 g dried cannabis or equivalent, and at most 4 plants.
  • A patron may not have more than 30 g (or equivalent) and 4 plants in the store, or any budding/flowering plant (medical exception with proof).
  • Equivalency to 1 g dried: 5 g fresh; 15 g solids; 70 g non-solids (not beverages); 0.25 g concentrate; 570 g beverages; 1 seed.
  • So 30 g dried = 150 g fresh, 450 g solids, 2,100 g non-solids, 7.5 g concentrate, 17,100 g (about 48 cans of 355 mL) of beverages, or 30 seeds.
  • Cannabis is sold only in original packaging that has never been opened.
  • Staff may open packaging only for smell or touch jars (or disposal), and that cannabis is never sold.
  • A patron may open packaging in the store only if bought there unopened.
  • Cannabis must not be sold to someone who plans to deliver it to another person for pay.

Minimum price

  • A licensee may not sell cannabis below the lower of what it paid the government and the current wholesale price; prices may change during the day but never below that floor.

Supply chain

  • The BC Liquor Distribution Branch (LDB) is the wholesale distributor of all non-medical cannabis in B.C.; it has a Direct Delivery program for small B.C. producers.
  • Legal products carry Health Canada packaging and a federal excise stamp; in B.C. look for the green provincial excise stamp. No stamp means not legal.
  • Licensed stores display a Licensed Cannabis Retailer decal.
  • Legal non-medical cannabis is sold only by licensed private retailers and government BC Cannabis Stores; legal B.C. stores may ship only within B.C.
  • Edibles: at most 10 mg THC per package; a multi-pack may hold several sealed 10 mg packages.
  • Health Canada licenses all producers and processors and sets packaging, labelling and promotion rules.

Store operations and security

Hours of 9 a.m. to 11 p.m., no consumption or games, layout and entrances, self-service and window display bans, alarms, cameras kept 30 days, storage and disposal.

Practise Store operations and security questionsFlashcardsOfficial chapter

Store rules

  • Open to patrons no earlier than 9 a.m. and no later than 11 p.m. (the GM can limit hours further).
  • No cannabis consumption in the store (also a prescribed place under CCLA s. 67).
  • No entertainment or games.
  • Store must be in a permanent building; entrances and exits not shared with another business; patrons cannot pass through another business except a mall common area or approved area.
  • The retail store licence must be posted in a conspicuous place.
  • Payment for cannabis takes place in the store unless bought online or by phone.

Display

  • No sales of cannabis or accessories through a self-service display or a dispensing device (vending machine).
  • Cannabis-related items (books, apparel) may be sold self-service.
  • No cannabis, accessories or their packaging displayed in a store window.
  • Smell jars must be attached to a case or counter and not touchable; touch jars only with staff help; opened packaging for jars is stored locked outside the sales area and kept for inspection until disposed of.
  • Staff must not alter or add substances to cannabis.

Storage and security

  • Required: third-party monitored intrusion alarm and fire alarm; lockable product case if cannabis is in the sales area; lockable storage area outside the sales area; secure exterior locks.
  • Cannabis is kept in a locked case or locked storage (except smell jars); cases locked when unattended.
  • Cameras with full view of the sales area, storage areas and inside/outside of every entrance and exit, recording at all times including when closed.
  • A written notice that cameras are in use must be posted in the sales area.
  • Recordings kept at least 30 days.
  • Off-site storage is not allowed; cannabis is stored at the store whose licence it was bought under.

Disposal and other activities

  • Cannabis from opened packaging (e.g. returns) and budding plants are destroyed or returned to the LDB.
  • Destroyed cannabis must be rendered unusable (example: shred, mix with water into sludge, add cat litter for odour), then composted or landfilled.
  • No discounts tied to purchases at another business; no third-party online group-discount promotions.
  • Money collected for a charity must be passed on in full.
  • No drive-through window deliveries.

Delivery and online orders

Who may deliver, delivery hours, name and signature on receipt, payment before dispatch, packing and returns, no deliveries to minors or intoxicated people, and delivery records.

Practise Delivery and online orders questionsFlashcardsOfficial chapter

Delivery rules

  • Cannabis may be delivered by the licensee or an employee, a delivery person (delivery service), or a common carrier (e.g. Canada Post).
  • Licensee/employee and delivery-person deliveries are allowed only between 9 a.m. and 11 p.m.
  • Licensee/employee may hand over at the B.C. address the patron gave or immediately outside the store; a delivery person only at the patron's B.C. address.
  • The person delivering must get the name and signature of the patron (or adult receiving for them); without it, no delivery.
  • Payment must be received before the order leaves the store; drivers may not collect payment at the door.
  • Delivery persons and carriers may not charge the patron a fee, or try to sell extra products at the door.
  • Orders are packed inside the store so contents are not visible, cannot open in transit and nothing can be removed; transported securely.
  • An undelivered order by licensee, employee or delivery person returns to the store the same day; a common carrier returns it to the store.
  • Orders are delivered from the store where they were bought; no direct delivery by a producer to the patron.
  • A licensee or employee delivering carries a copy of the licence.
  • Delivery fee and item prices must be disclosed when the order is placed.
  • Delivery persons and carriers must not be minors, must not carry minors in the vehicle, and must not deliver to minors or to intoxicated people.
  • A delivery person who is an individual needs Selling It Right.
  • Common carriers must keep cannabis in federally compliant packaging and inaccessible to the driver while moving, and follow local delivery-hour bylaws.
  • Delivery records: date and time, carrier or service name, address, products and prices, delivery fee, and the recipient's name and signature.
  • Possession limits do not apply to staff delivering under the licence, but they apply to anything a person personally possesses for themselves.

Promotion, loyalty and inducements

Advertising and branding limits, no pharmacy or dispensary words, no loyalty programs, responsible sales strategies, tied houses, inducements, permitted hospitality and samples.

Practise Promotion, loyalty and inducements questionsFlashcardsOfficial chapter

Advertising and branding

  • Store advertising, signs and branding must not use language that encourages intoxication.
  • They must not misrepresent the type of business or suggest medical cannabis: no "pharmacy", "apothecary" or "dispensary", no green cross, snake on a staff or mortar and pestle.
  • No one may use branding that could be confused with government cannabis branding (except the licensed store name).
  • Licensees need a cannabis marketing licence to promote cannabis to stores or adults; only licensees may promote cannabis for sale (CCLA s. 16).

Sales strategy

  • A licensee must not use a sales strategy likely to promote or encourage excessive, irresponsible or dangerous cannabis use.
  • Loyalty programs of any kind are banned (rewards for repeat business); free membership lists announcing offers open to all patrons are allowed if not tied to a purchase.
  • Cannabis samples may not be given to patrons or the public.

Tied houses and inducements

  • No arrangement to sell one federal producer's cannabis to the exclusion of another's.
  • No one may offer money, gifts or rewards to a licensee or employee to push a particular class or brand, and licensees/employees must not request or accept them.
  • Stores must offer a representative selection of products from a variety of federal licence holders.
  • Licensees may not accept cannabis, accessories or product vouchers for themselves or staff from producers or marketing licensees.
  • Permitted: travel, meals, accommodation and entertainment at promotional events, and hospitality, up to $1,500 per calendar year per licensee (multi-store licensees $1,500 per individual, $4,500 per licensee).
  • Free samples between licensees and from producers are allowed up to 3.5 g dried or equivalent per class.
  • First-contravention penalty for tied house or inducement: $7,000–$11,000 or 7–11 days.

Cannabis Act (Canada) s. 17 (as summarized in the Handbook)

  • Promotion may not appeal to young persons or link cannabis to glamour, recreation, excitement, vitality, risk or daring; no false or misleading claims about potency, safety or health.

Records, inspections and penalties

Six-year records and the cannabis register, incident logs, LCRB inspections and cooperation, the penalty and suspension schedule and court fines.

Practise Records, inspections and penalties questionsFlashcardsOfficial chapter

Records

  • Records are kept 6 years from creation (and 6 months after the licence ends); a separate set for each licence.
  • Required: cannabis purchase and sales records (quantity and price); delivery records; transfers between own stores; disposal records (date, place, method, type and amount); accessory and prepaid card sales; contracts; invoices; incident records; court orders; employee records; training records.
  • A register of all cannabis purchased and received is also kept for 6 years.
  • Kept in the store: the licence appendix, any special terms letter, and the approved floor plan.
  • Incident records include date and time, description, people involved, employee witnesses, action taken, relevant sales records and statements.
  • Examples of incidents to record: refusing entry or asking someone to leave, a minor trying to buy, injuries or accidents (including during delivery), calling emergency services, unlawful activity.

Inspections

  • LCRB inspectors may enter non-residential premises at any reasonable time, inspect and remove records, require information, require anyone in the store (including patrons) to show ID, open packages, take samples, seize unlawfully possessed cannabis and make audio or video records.
  • Inspectors may be assisted by a peace officer.
  • The licensee must let the inspector in immediately, promptly produce records and things, and must not obstruct or withhold information.

Penalties

  • The general manager can impose monetary penalties or licence suspensions using a schedule; a contravention is a first, second or subsequent one depending on same-type contraventions at that store in the previous 12 months.
  • Unlawful possession, sale or supply of cannabis: $15,000–$50,000 or 15–90 days.
  • Self-service display or dispensing device: first $3,000–$7,000 or 3–7 days.
  • Allowing consumption in the store: first $3,000–$7,000 or 3–7 days.
  • Breaking display (window) rules: first $7,000–$11,000 or 7–11 days.
  • The GM may post signs about a suspension or penalty; the licensee must not remove, deface or move them until the period ends.
  • The GM may publish the licensee's name, the contravention and the action taken.

Court fines (selected)

  • Offences in s. 109 (1) (d) (e.g. selling to minors, training rules, conduct rules): corporation up to $50,000; individual licensee up to $50,000 and/or 6 months; other individual up to $10,000 and/or 6 months.

Cannabis and health

THC and CBD, product forms, onset of inhaled and edible cannabis, overconsumption, mixing with alcohol, youth and mental health, pregnancy and Canada's lower-risk guidelines.

Practise Cannabis and health questionsFlashcardsOfficial chapter

Cannabis and your health

  • Cannabinoids become active with heat; THC causes the "high"; unpleasant effects may be greater with higher THC.
  • CBD does not cause a high or intoxication and may have therapeutic effects; in B.C. all non-medical cannabis rules apply to CBD products too.
  • Cannabis can be inhaled, ingested, applied to skin or taken under the tongue; forms include dried flower, pre-rolls, edibles, extracts/vape cartridges, resins (hash, shatter), oils and tinctures.
  • Edibles have a delayed onset and longer effects; it can take up to four hours to feel the full effect.
  • Starting with a low dose or low-THC product helps avoid overconsumption, which can cause anxiety, paranoia and rapid heartbeat.
  • Higher-THC products like concentrates are more likely to cause dependency and other harms.
  • Alcohol intensifies cannabis effects and can cause nausea or vomiting, even in experienced users.
  • Long-term regular use can raise the risk of anxiety or depression; daily or near-daily use can increase the risk of psychosis and schizophrenia.
  • The brain develops rapidly through the first 25 years; youth are at higher risk of psychosis than adults.
  • Cannabis use in pregnancy can harm the baby.
  • Medical cannabis is regulated federally by Health Canada; a health care provider authorizes it.

Consumer information: Cannabis (2025)

  • Inhaled: effects begin in seconds to minutes; ingested: 30 minutes to 2 hours.
  • Delayed onset of ingested cannabis can lead to overconsumption and cannabis poisoning.
  • If someone overconsumes and feels unwell: 1-844-POISON-X (1-800-463-5060 in Quebec), 9-1-1 or a hospital.
  • Store all cannabis out of reach of children and pets, in child-resistant packaging; edibles can poison children.

Canada's Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines

  • Not using is the most effective way to avoid risk; delay use until after adolescence.
  • Choose low-THC, higher-CBD products; avoid synthetic cannabinoids.
  • Avoid smoking burnt cannabis; avoid deep inhaling or breath-holding.
  • Limit to occasional use; do not drive for at least 6 hours.
  • People with a personal or family history of psychosis or substance use disorder, and pregnant people, should not use.

Buy legal cannabis

  • Illicit cannabis can contain pesticides, mould, bacteria or heavy metals, and THC/CBD claims may be false.

Possession, home growing and public use

Possession limits in public and at home, growing four plants per household, where adults may and may not smoke or vape, vehicles and boats, and travel.

Practise Possession, home growing and public use questionsFlashcardsOfficial chapter

Possession and purchasing limits (May 2026)

  • Adults 19+ may possess up to 30 g dried (or equivalent) in public and buy up to 30 g in one transaction.
  • Up to 1,000 g dried (or equivalent) may be kept at home, per household (CCLA s. 54).
  • Up to four plants may be grown per household, not per person.

Home growing

  • The grower must be 19+ and live at the home; only one home at a time; no growing where licensed child care is provided.
  • Plants must not be visible from public places such as parks, streets, sidewalks, sports fields or K-12 properties.
  • Seeds must come from legal sources (licensed private stores or BC Cannabis Stores).
  • Landlords and strata corporations can restrict or ban growing and smoking.
  • Adults may share legal home-grown cannabis with other adults but may not accept money; up to 30 g dried may be mailed to another adult.

CCLA ss. 61–67; gov.bc.ca Where you can consume

  • Adults can generally smoke or vape cannabis where tobacco smoking and vaping are allowed.
  • Not allowed: at playgrounds, sports fields, skate parks, pools and spray pools (and their decks and seating); in provincial, regional and municipal parks except some designated areas and campsites.
  • Not allowed in, on or near school property, including roads, sidewalks and parks next to schools.
  • Not allowed inside public buildings or workplaces, or within 6 m of their doors, windows and air intakes, or in common areas of apartments, condos and dorms.
  • Not allowed within 6 m of a bus stop, transit shelter, train station, ferry dock or similar place.
  • No smoking or vaping on health board property except designated tobacco areas.
  • No restrictions for adults in privately owned homes; strata bylaws need a three-quarters vote.
  • Consuming cannabis in a cannabis retail store is prohibited.

Vehicles and boats

  • No one may consume cannabis while operating, or as a passenger in, a vehicle or boat, moving or not; a driver may not operate if they know someone is smoking or vaping cannabis inside.
  • Exceptions: motor homes, campers or trailers used as a residence and parked where camping is allowed (not a public or forest service road); boats with sleeping, cooking and toilet facilities used as a residence and moored or anchored.

Travelling with cannabis

  • Up to 30 g may be carried on domestic flights; taking cannabis or THC/CBD products across the Canadian border is illegal either direction.
  • Laws (age, where to consume, where to buy) differ between provinces.

Cannabis and driving

THC blood limits, roadside testing, the 90-day administrative prohibition, zero tolerance for new drivers and the rules for carrying cannabis in a vehicle.

Practise Cannabis and driving questionsFlashcardsOfficial chapter

Cannabis and driving (May 2026)

  • If you have used cannabis, do not drive; there is no standard or safe time to wait, and a person may not feel impaired but still be affected.
  • Blood THC limits: over 2 ng/mL can lead to charges; over 5 ng/mL, or over 2.5 ng/mL combined with alcohol, brings more serious charges.
  • Drivers with more than 5 ng/mL THC are nearly five times as likely to cause a fatal crash.
  • CBD is not generally known to impair, but know how it affects you before driving.
  • Police may require a Standard Field Sobriety Test; then a Drug Recognition Expert evaluation with a bodily fluid sample, or a blood sample.
  • The oral fluid screening test detects THC at a 30 ng/mL cut-off; a positive leads to a blood sample.
  • Criminal Code: maximum penalty for drug-impaired driving is 10 years in prison.
  • Motor Vehicle Act Administrative Driving Prohibition: immediate 90-day driving prohibition if blood THC is over 5 ng/mL, or 2.5 ng/mL with alcohol, within 2 hours of driving.
  • Graduated Licensing Program (L and N drivers): zero tolerance for any alcohol, THC or cocaine; immediate 12-hour suspension; N drivers restart the 24-month N period, learners redo testing.

Carrying cannabis in a vehicle

  • Allowed: up to 30 g in original unopened packaging; or up to 30 g opened/unpackaged but inaccessible to the driver (e.g. trunk); up to 4 non-flowering plants.
  • An adult must not drive with cannabis in the vehicle unless one of those exceptions applies.
  • Consuming cannabis as a passenger, or in a parked car on a public or forest service road, is illegal.

Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines

  • Wait at least 6 hours after using before driving; collision risk is 2 to 3 times higher; combining with alcohol is worse.

Written in our own words from: Cannabis Control and Licensing Act, Cannabis Licensing Regulation and LCRB Cannabis Retail Store Licence Handbook

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