As the parliamentary budget watchdog pointed out in its analysis of the fiscal considerations when legalizing pot, if tax is too high, buyers will stick with the black market. The chair of the government's cannabis task force, Anne McLellan, said that her group learned some important lessons about edibles from Colorado's experience. The federal task force recommended the government ban any cannabis products that could be "appealing to children," based on the products themselves or their packaging. "Whereas evidence was gathered over many years to arrive at an established metric for alcohol intoxication — blood alcohol concentration (BAC) — these types of data do not exist for cannabis," the cannabis task force report notes. The marijuana task force also recommended that tourists be informed of their rights and obligations, including not taking drugs across international borders.

Source: CBC News April 13, 2017 09:01 UTC