The Liberal government is expected to introduce legislation next month that will make marijuana legal for recreational use across Canada by July 1, 2018.
According to media reports, the federal government will oversee the country's marijuana supply and Ottawa will license producers.
Similar to the purchase of alcohol and tobacco products, there will be a minimum age to purchase marijuana, with the age set at 18 nationally, but provinces will be able to set higher age restrictions.
Provinces will also be able to control prices, along with how marijuana is purchased and sold.
Canadians who want to grow their own marijuana will be allowed to do so, with a limit of four plants per household.
Marijuana legalization was one of the more well-known, and controversial, campaign promises that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ran on, and in the Liberal platform it was said that it was necessary to legalize, regulate and restrict access to marijuana to keep drugs out of the hands of children and the profits out of the hands of criminals.
Reports have indicated that the legislation will be announced during the week of April 10, ahead of counterculture holiday 4/20 (April 20), where many marijuana enthusiasts gather to publicly light up.
The new legislation will be introduced just shy of a year after the Liberals used last year's 4/20 celebrations to announce that they would table the bill by spring 2017.
