The trouble with edibles

No one really knows for certain what the market potential is for cannabis, much less for edibles, but growth opportunities are palatable. Credit: Shutterstock

On Oct. 17, smoking cannabis will become legal in Canada. As for cannabis edibles, they will take a bit longer: Cannabis-infused food products will be legal in a little less than a year’s time.

Once edibles are available, things will get complicated in Canada’s food industry. But with the right regulations, this is a profit opportunity that doesn’t come by every day.

Initially, Bill C-45 did not include edibles. That only happened last fall, when the parliamentary health committee decided that edibles would need to be included as well if the country was going to adopt a comprehensive approach to legalized cannabis.

According to a recently published survey from Dalhousie University, 93 per cent of those favourable to the legalization of marijuana are…

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