Canada’s competition watchdog says the federal government should consider loosening the restrictive rules on how cannabis has to be packaged and raise the amount of psychoactive ingredients that are allowed in edible products to help the industry thrive and stamp out the black market while maintaining public safety.
Those were some of the main recommendations from the Competition Bureau to Health Canada in a report published Friday.
The health agency is in the midst of updating the Cannabis Act, the federal law that made cannabis products legal in Canada since 2018.
Those rules are expected to be updated by early next year, and
