The federal government is giving Canadians until Feb. 20 to pipe up on phase two of the nation’s ongoing rollout of legal cannabis.
Proposed regulations around edibles, extracts and topicals were released Dec. 20 and the main talking points centre around allowable THC levels, messaging and ensuring the packages are kid proof.
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On the topic of behind the wheel, Kyla Lee said the new impaired driving laws that came into effect in December do contain topics of interest on the edibles front. Specifically, don’t ingest an edible and then drive, even if you get behind the wheel 10 minutes — long before the effects are typically felt — after the edible is consumed.
“Because it was within two hours of when you drove, then that is sufficient to establish that you were impaired at the time that you were driving,” Lee said. “It’s not a defence to claim that you took the edible and it hadn’t kicked in yet.”
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