CANSELL ACTUAL STUDY EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Federal Requirements - ✔✔The federal Cannabis Act came into force on October
17, 2018. It put in place a new, strict framework for controlling the production,
distribution, sale and possession of recreational cannabis in Canada
✔✔How does the Cannabis Act protect public health and safety - ✔✔By:
Setting rules for adults to access quality controlled cannabis
Creating a new, tightly regulated supply chain
✔✔What are adults able to do under the federal Cannabis Act? - ✔✔-Possess up to 30
grams of legal cannabis, dried or equivalent in non-dried form in public
-they can share up to 30 grams of cannabis with other adults but not sell
-purchase cannabis products from an authorized provincial or territorial retailer
-grow up to four plants per residence for personal use from licensed seeds or seedings
✔✔Federal responsibilities - ✔✔-Regulating the cultivation an dproxesssi g of cannabis,
along with listening producers of cannabis
- the production and sale of medicinal cannabis
✔✔Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario - ✔✔Is responsible for controlling the
sale of recreational cannabis in private retail stores
✔✔AGCO (alcohol and gaming commission of Ontario) main Activities - ✔✔-The
licensing of eligible retail store operators and the authorization of eligible retail stores
-The creation of standards and requirements for cannabis retail stores
-Inspections, investigations and audits to ensure compliance with the law
✔✔What is the AGCO main focus? - ✔✔On the safe, responsible and lawful sale of
recreational cannabis
✔✔Cannabis Control Act - ✔✔In Ontario the government passed the cannabis Control
Act and Cannabis Licence ACT which governs:
-How cannabis can be sold
-Where cannabis can be sold
-Who can buy and possess cannabis
The government of Ontario has worked to implement a safe, legal system for cannabis
retail that's intended to protect youth, protect roads and combat the illegal market for
cannabis
✔✔Medical Cannabis framework - ✔✔-Medical consumers are not prescribed cannabis
but instead are authorized to use cannabis medically by way of a medical document
from Health Canada
, -Medical consumers purchase their cannabis directly from federally licensed producers
-Medical consumers can grow their own cannabis or authorize someone to grow on
their behalf
(Can have 5 indoor to 2 outdoor plants for every gram per day of cannabis the e been
authorized for)
-Medical consumers can possess or transport more cannabis than public or real
relational consumers (either 158 g or 30 day supply of cannabis)
✔✔Recreational Cannabis Framework - ✔✔-recreational consumers purchase cannabis
from an authorized retailer
-minimum age for purchase set by the provinces (19+)
-consumers may purchase, possess only 30g in public
- can grow up to 4 plants per resident
✔✔Purchasing Cannabis in Ontario - ✔✔-Have to be 19 and older
-Two legal ways to purchase recreational Cannabis in Ontario include:
-can purchase online from the Ontario cannabis store
-Can purchase in person at private retail locations that are licensed by the AGCO
✔✔Consuming cannabis in Ontario: where Cannabis can be smoked or vaped -
✔✔Private residence
Many outdoor public places (e.g. sidewalks, parks)
Designated hotel rooms
Vehicles and boats that are parked or anchored and being used as residence
✔✔Consuming Cannabis in Ontario: Where cannabis CANNOT be smoked or vaped: -
✔✔Indoors in public spaces
Schools and places where children gather
Hospitals
Hospices, care homes in non-controlled areas
Publicly-owned spaces (ex. Sports fields)
Certain outdoors areas (including restaurants and on bar patios)
✔✔ Cansell - ✔✔A partnership program between Lift.Co and MadCanada which has
been approved for use in Ontario by the board of the alcohol and gaming commission of
Ontario
✔✔1923 - ✔✔Cannabis was defined as a narcotic and added to the Opium and
Narcotic Drug Act as a banned substance.
✔✔2001 - ✔✔Terrance Parker sues Ontario province for the right to use cannabis after
being arrested for growing the plant himself for treatment of his epilepsy disease
Ontario court of appeal recognized that preventing Terrance from treating his disorder
by way of growing the plant deprives him of his rights to liberty and security
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Federal Requirements - ✔✔The federal Cannabis Act came into force on October
17, 2018. It put in place a new, strict framework for controlling the production,
distribution, sale and possession of recreational cannabis in Canada
✔✔How does the Cannabis Act protect public health and safety - ✔✔By:
Setting rules for adults to access quality controlled cannabis
Creating a new, tightly regulated supply chain
✔✔What are adults able to do under the federal Cannabis Act? - ✔✔-Possess up to 30
grams of legal cannabis, dried or equivalent in non-dried form in public
-they can share up to 30 grams of cannabis with other adults but not sell
-purchase cannabis products from an authorized provincial or territorial retailer
-grow up to four plants per residence for personal use from licensed seeds or seedings
✔✔Federal responsibilities - ✔✔-Regulating the cultivation an dproxesssi g of cannabis,
along with listening producers of cannabis
- the production and sale of medicinal cannabis
✔✔Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario - ✔✔Is responsible for controlling the
sale of recreational cannabis in private retail stores
✔✔AGCO (alcohol and gaming commission of Ontario) main Activities - ✔✔-The
licensing of eligible retail store operators and the authorization of eligible retail stores
-The creation of standards and requirements for cannabis retail stores
-Inspections, investigations and audits to ensure compliance with the law
✔✔What is the AGCO main focus? - ✔✔On the safe, responsible and lawful sale of
recreational cannabis
✔✔Cannabis Control Act - ✔✔In Ontario the government passed the cannabis Control
Act and Cannabis Licence ACT which governs:
-How cannabis can be sold
-Where cannabis can be sold
-Who can buy and possess cannabis
The government of Ontario has worked to implement a safe, legal system for cannabis
retail that's intended to protect youth, protect roads and combat the illegal market for
cannabis
✔✔Medical Cannabis framework - ✔✔-Medical consumers are not prescribed cannabis
but instead are authorized to use cannabis medically by way of a medical document
from Health Canada
, -Medical consumers purchase their cannabis directly from federally licensed producers
-Medical consumers can grow their own cannabis or authorize someone to grow on
their behalf
(Can have 5 indoor to 2 outdoor plants for every gram per day of cannabis the e been
authorized for)
-Medical consumers can possess or transport more cannabis than public or real
relational consumers (either 158 g or 30 day supply of cannabis)
✔✔Recreational Cannabis Framework - ✔✔-recreational consumers purchase cannabis
from an authorized retailer
-minimum age for purchase set by the provinces (19+)
-consumers may purchase, possess only 30g in public
- can grow up to 4 plants per resident
✔✔Purchasing Cannabis in Ontario - ✔✔-Have to be 19 and older
-Two legal ways to purchase recreational Cannabis in Ontario include:
-can purchase online from the Ontario cannabis store
-Can purchase in person at private retail locations that are licensed by the AGCO
✔✔Consuming cannabis in Ontario: where Cannabis can be smoked or vaped -
✔✔Private residence
Many outdoor public places (e.g. sidewalks, parks)
Designated hotel rooms
Vehicles and boats that are parked or anchored and being used as residence
✔✔Consuming Cannabis in Ontario: Where cannabis CANNOT be smoked or vaped: -
✔✔Indoors in public spaces
Schools and places where children gather
Hospitals
Hospices, care homes in non-controlled areas
Publicly-owned spaces (ex. Sports fields)
Certain outdoors areas (including restaurants and on bar patios)
✔✔ Cansell - ✔✔A partnership program between Lift.Co and MadCanada which has
been approved for use in Ontario by the board of the alcohol and gaming commission of
Ontario
✔✔1923 - ✔✔Cannabis was defined as a narcotic and added to the Opium and
Narcotic Drug Act as a banned substance.
✔✔2001 - ✔✔Terrance Parker sues Ontario province for the right to use cannabis after
being arrested for growing the plant himself for treatment of his epilepsy disease
Ontario court of appeal recognized that preventing Terrance from treating his disorder
by way of growing the plant deprives him of his rights to liberty and security
