First it was smokable cannabis becoming legal, now with the feds planning on make the edible version available, people aren’t as pumped about trying it as they were when legalization was announced

Two years ago almost half of Canadians said they’d be willing to try an edible cannabis product, that’s fallen to 26 percent according to a recent study.

Dr Sylvain Charlebois of Dalhousie University thinks stories of kids and pets accidentally consuming the products have lead to overly strict regulations by the Liberals.”With an election, of course, the last thing they want is another child ingesting a cannabis infused product of some sort accidentally, ends up in the hospital, gets heavily publicized and the government gets blamed. That’s the last thing they want.”

Charlebois adds we could see a marked increase in the black market sale of edibles as a result of all the red tape.