NightOwlWhy aren’t health warnings on cigarettes expanded to alcohol?
tellahMeanwhile cannabis beverages are required to have:
- Nutrition facts including calories, sugar, etc.
- gigantic yellow warning with random health warning (e.g., don’t use if pregnant)
- huge red stop sign cannabis leaf logo
- KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN
- big pain in the ass plastic childproof thing
None of these required on a can of beer.
From a harm reduction perspective, it’s a massive failure. Many cannabis beverages have very low nearly zero calories, sugar-free. For your physical health they are almost certainly less harmful than alcohol and I know many people would enjoy them as an alternative to alcohol.
We have faced a similar failure in harm reduction strategy regarding vaping versus tobacco. I think in both cases it’s a result of vested interests (tax revenue, lobbying, don’t know) trumping what is best for people.
The way Canada has handled cannabis legalization is embarrassing.
What do you mean? I’m not familiar
Presumably he means that Canada didn’t handle, aside from lifting the prohibition, it as it is a provincial matter.
Health Canada has also made some ridiculous limitations. They are the reason all the warning labels have to be on everything, and why packaging is so bad that it ruins the buds. They also established some very restrictive rules regarding edibles and extracts. A 10mg limit for edibles is crazy and one of the big reasons that black market edibles are so popular.