Sweet treats the next step in cannabis


Cannabis edibles are expected to become officially legalized later this year.The Times interviewed a local citizen with decades of edibles experience,but due to the current state of the product in legal limbo in Canada,an alias has been used to protect his identity as he shares his personal story.


BY GREG PRICE insight magazine


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t is well into the first year since Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau officially made cannabis legal for recreational use, back in October 2018.


Now, the federal government is preparing to allow


more products onto the market — like edibles involving baked goods,candy and chocolate. The federal government released its proposed


regulations for edibles on Dec. 20.The rules limit the amount of THC, the key psychoactive component in cannabis, to 10 mg per edible and it must be indi- vidually wrapped.The regulations also say packag- ing has to be child-resistant and plain, in addition to


displaying the standard cannabis symbol with a health warning.There are also restrictions on ingre- dients,such as sweeteners or colourants, that might make products more appealing to children. Health Canada reviewed responses from a two- month consultation period on the proposed regula- tions.The Liberal government has said edibles will be “permitted for sale”no later than Oct. 17, marking one year since cannabis became legal, with estima- tions of an edibles market taking in between $1 to $1.5 billion in annual revenue. “When it becomes legalized and pre-packed, you’ll


know exactly what you are getting.That’s the beau- tiful thing about it,and the way it should be.You aren’t in the dark about anything, you know exactly what you are getting,”said Reg Hammond, adding his first experience with an edible was when he was 18 years old.“With measured edibles, you are not spinning a slot machine. Edibles will ruin someone’s night if they don’t know what they are doing.” Hammond admitted he didn’t know what he was doing as an experimental 18 year old, buying an ounce of weed and then baking a cake. It was split in four between friends and was consumed. “We had no idea what we were doing,but we thought,how bad could this be? But I remember going to bed at 3 a.m.and waking up for 8 a.m. because we had a pancake breakfast and I was twice as stoned as when I went to bed,”said Hammond.“I was stoned until supper time,it was messed up. It is a way different buzz than smoking it.Smoking goes


more to your head, while eating it goes more to your body.”


Hammond adds when people are trying to find


their tolerance levels to achieve their desired affect for an edible, they admit they get too anxious think- ing something isn’t working. In other traditional avenues of cannabis consumption, desired euphoric affects may take around 10 minutes, while with edi- bles it could take over an hour to kick in. “A mistake a lot of people make is they don’t wait long enough.They think it isn’t working, and so they take more which is a big mistake.People should be taking baby steps,”said Hammond.“I know how to dose myself, but everyone is different. I have a fairly high tolerance compared to most people. Figure out your tolerance carefully and figure out how much you need to take you where you need to go.” While a regular pot consumer through smoking, Hammond would not take another edible for 30 years.Having in his possession weed that was ‘not


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