Health Canada warns cannabis growers about lax online age gates

Health Canada warns cannabis growers about lax online age gates

Health Canada on March 8 sent a letter to all cannabis producers and cultivators, and for the first time warned them that having a pop-up window where a web visitor plugs in their age in order to access content “may be easily circumvented by youth.”

That may seem to be a no brainer, given that many youth under the age of 18 are savvy enough to be able to select an older birth date so it appears that they are of legal age. Many cannabis companies, however, have simple age gates that either have a button to click for a visitor to attest that they are of age, or a more cumbersome one where a province has to be selected in addition to the exact day of birth.

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