The National Post reports in its Saturday, Sept. 24, edition that former deputy justice minister Morris Rosenberg is set to oversee an expert committee examining whether the Cannabis Act has done what it was supposed to do. The Post's Chris Selley writes that in the 20 months following Ontario, Alberta and B.C.'s decisions to legalize retail of edibles, the pediatric hospitalization rate for pot exposure shot up in those provinces combined from 2.5 per 100,000 kids per year to 7.2. In Quebec where edibles are not sold it rose from 2.4 to just 2.8. Mr. Rosenberg's panel will likely hear voices demanding provinces roll back on edibles. As always, some perspective is in order. For starters: Overall pediatric poisonings do not seem to have increased since legalization; they are actually down, at least in Ontario, according to the JAMA Network research letter. A higher percentage of childhood poisoning incidents now involve cannabis. However, they are not additional poisonings. Clearly, parents need to keep their stashes out of their children's reach, just as should all other household poisons. Research puts the lie to the idea that edibles are uniquely dangerous because they look and taste like candy.