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Five years later, researchers say the impacts of legalizing cannabis in Canada have been mixed (www.ctvnews.ca)
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Since Canada's legalization of cannabis five years ago, researchers say the policy has had mixed results in terms of public health and justice reform.

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[–] 23 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Well for one I now have access to cannabis oil that helps me relieve anxiety and sleep as lot better. So personally it's great.

Where it's not so great is where governments have been too restrictive and people had to circumvent these restrictions. For things like growing it at home or edibles in Quebec for example.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    My partner gets 20 mg gummie from the black market that work amazing for her for sleep. 100 gummie for $100. Can't get gummie for that price, or with that dosage from the gov't, so she'll never buy from them.

    I understand the issues with edibles and kids, but the gov't isn't going to win this so they may as well figure out how to move forward if they want to make an actual dent in the black market.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Just make the packaging look like it's medication with a big scary warning sign on it. And make the gummies a boring color. It's as simple as that.

    And if the dosage is too high, simply reduce it by half. Let people take two if they need to.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    The take two thought peocess is probably what caused some of the mess.

    Oh, well just keep it low so there's less risk to kids, but now we gotta eat a whole damn chocolate bar if we want it in chocolate bar form.

    If we can't get the dosage we want in the size and form factor we want, people will just keep getting it on the black market rather than gorge themselves unnecessarily

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I'm way outside of the loop on this as I don't use cannabis in any form, but if I get what people are saying the dose on the edibles means that you wouldn't eat a typical serving of candy to feel the effects?

    That sounds both stupid and dangerous to me. I'd think some of the reason you'd eat the candy is for the texture and flavour, so why wouldn't they be dosed in a way that they expect you to eat the whole bag as a snack?

    I can't imagine buying a bag of sour patch kids and being told I can only eat three of the candies out of it.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    If you want to eat a whole chocolate bar to get high, you can go ahead and buy a dosed bar appropriately, but a lot of people don't want to do that. And 1 bar might not even be enough as people have different tolerances.

    On the black market, things can be dosed so you can maybe do it in 2-3 squares of a 16 square chocolate bar. You can get high, but also don't need to eat an unhealthy amount of sugar. We don't want to be encouraging a chocolate bar a day for some people.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Valid point on the "one a day" possibility. I never considered it that way.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    Oh there's one other interesting point which I believe can be an issue sometimes.

    When you dose a bag of gummies at 10mg, I'm not sure where things stand on the dose of each gummy vs the bag. I think I've heard stories of unpredictable doses if not the whole serving. That would be the same risk for high or low dose as well.

    But when you get into something like a brownie or cookie, which is sold as a single item you would intend to eat all at once, you don't have that issue. But they can't make a single cookie or brownie with a high enough dose.

    I'm not actually sure how much of a problem that is in reality, but it's a minor consideration if doses are broken up.

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