Health Canada has crafted regulations to govern pot edibles and marijuana activist Dana Larsen has concerns.
He says the rule to limit edible doses to 10-milligrams is okay for occasional users - but those who require cannabis for medical reasons can use doses up to 500 milligrams.
"That will be 50 packages that you'll have to unwrap and use to get the medicine you need. Edibles can be worrisome if you take too much, but the way they've restricted them - it's too much. All you really need is proper labelling and some warnings, which is really the better way to deal with edibles potency," says Larsen.
Not only that - but he told AM 1150's Early Edition the feds have yet to address quality control issues with the cannabis they've already legalized.
"That was supposed to be the big promise - that Health Canada was going to insure all the legal cannabis was top quality and that you can really trust the government cannabis unlike that supposedly dirty, black market stuff. But the reality is they've done a really poor job of regulating and controlling it - and there's been a rush with these companies to get their product to market, and cash in, and there's been a lot of shenanigans going on," says Larsen.
He cites cases of legal cannabis being sold in some parts of the country containing insect parts, pesticides and mould that Health Canada let slip through.
Pot edibles likely won't hit the market until mid-December.
Larsen doesn't think edibles will hit stores anytime soon - maybe by mid-December.
And he adds, not only is the federal government legalizing edibles - every province is also weighing in - and he believes BC could impose some of the most restrictive rules in the country.