Canada Needs To Settle On A Safe Standard Dose For Cannabis Edibles

published on March 20, 2019 by Jenna Valleriani and Rielle Capler in HuffPost Canada

Cannabis edibles and extracts have long been part of the unregulated market and, as promised, they will join flower and low-dose oils as part of the legal, regulated market in the next year. Health Canada is currently considering how to address public health and safety concerns around these products, and has just completed a public consultation on their proposed regulations.

To a large extent, two important concepts could alter this discussion considerably: a standard dose of THC versus restrictions on the maximum of THC allowed per unit and per package…