Cannabis: Quebec government leaning toward prohibiting home cultivation

CORPIQ’s efforts on the issue appear to be bearing fruit. Over the past several months, CORPIQ has met with provincial and federal authorities, contacted a half-dozen ministers and spoken many times with the media to express its opposition to legalizing the production and use of cannabis in apartment buildings.

CORPIQ’s actions seem to be providing results. According to an article that appeared in La Presse on September 14, the Quebec government will prohibit the cultivation of cannabis in homes. This move would invalidate the right provided by the Trudeau government’s Bill C-45, which is still under review by a parliamentary commission. If the bill is adopted as written, it would allow people to grow four 100-centimetre cannabis plants in their dwelling. Yet no means of controlling this production in private homes—which are difficult to monitor—has been put forward.

CORPIQ sent authorities the results of the member survey conducted in January along with member comments, which undoubtedly helped both levels of government understand the potential dangers of the law. Other problems with the law also exist such as complaints from tenants bothered by marijuana smoke and the altered behaviour of tenants consuming the drug. See CORPIQ’s press release from April of this year: « Légaliser la culture de cannabis dans des logements loués: irresponsable, estiment les propriétaires » (avril 2017).