Ok, I'll give you the skinny on why I won't touch an edible. I was in Cannabis in quality for 1 1/2 years that I wish I could get back
1) Cannabis, whether smoked, vaped, rubbed, swallowed or ingested are all lumped together
2) Cannabis is classified as a drug and as such is regulated by Health Canada
3) Health Canada DOE NOT HAVE A CLUE what a preventive control plan is but have been tasked with enforcing the regulations that require one (seriously, the inspectors were given next to zero training)
4) There are not ANY prescriptive measurements for anything other than THC/CBD levels----this includes such things as room/storage temperatures or temperatures for shipping vehicles
5) Cannabis companies DO NOT CARE about quality unless it's THC related. Period.
https://www.canada.c...s-topicals.html
Now, here's my opinion on why things are the way they are
1) The prime minister made a good faith decision regarding cannabis and legalization to try and combat the black market (plus it's a huge tax cash cow kaching)
2) Health Canada vehemently opposes this plan
3) Health Canada is in charge of the regulatory framework--makes it so rigid you can't function in it profitably
4) Health Canada wanted to be in charge and is more than an arms legnth removed from CFIA
5) Health Canada does not care how THC/CBD potency react over time
Now, when my employer at the time wanted to start making chocolate-----I discovered that egads! no one could test it accurate for repeatable potency
Whoa----project delayed by 6 weeks while we worked hand in hand with the 3rd party lab to get the test accredited to move forward
Now---do you think anyone in the industry has performed shelf life studies on potency post production?!!?!? Heck no, and why you might ask???????? You guessed it, because Health Canada doesn't require it. You just have to prove the potency at time of testing. No more, no less
So while you and I both understand that a cannabis muffin, is food with a drug in it, health canada believes it to be a drug with food around it............so since they write the rules............that's the way it is
I had my director of Quality tell me that "no one gives a sh** about quality---they just want to get high" and that is my experience in cannabis in a nutshell