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Former Health Canada employee Sherry Boodram doesn’t expect the regulations will change much, if at all, despite consultations.

“There was nothing in there that stuck out to me as being totally off the wall,” said Boodram, who is now the CEO of CannDelta, a regulatory and scientific cannabis consulting company. When asked if she would change anything about the proposed regulations, she said one of her concerns is the packaging, calling it “very wasteful.”

Ryan Hellard, the chief experience officer of Alberta-based cannabis producer Sundial Growers who joined the panel with Boodram, agreed.

“You could easily have a gummy that’s the size of a traditional gummy,” he said. “I don’t think they’ve taken into account the physical aspects of the product when they put together their packaging and labelling requirement, so, as result of that, you’ll continue to see a tremendous amount of waste.

“Over time, to drive sustainability within this industry, we need to re-address those packaging issues,” said Hellard.

In terms of dosage, Boodram believes 10 mg is a good place to start.

“Health Canada was pretty conscious in ensuring that the limitation on the THC concentration was low enough to make sure there wasn’t any overconsumption or overdose, while still mitigating any potential for black market products superseding what’s available in the legal market.”

The Liberal government said edibles will be “permitted for sale” no later than Oct. 17, marking one year since cannabis became legal. However, cabinet minister Bill Blair, who leads the pot file, suggested in January that the federal regulations are not the final step, and actual sales might come later.