The Vancouver Sun reports in its Friday edition that hundreds of recreational cannabis edibles, extracts and topicals will hit B.C. shelves soon but it is unclear whether that will be in time to bring Christmas cheer. The Sun's Nick Eagland writes that regulations to make those products legal came into effect Oct. 17, one year after the federal legalization of dried cannabis, oil and seeds. However, thanks to red tape, producers were not immediately able to ship them to the B.C. Cannabis Stores and website, and private stores. Producers will then need to ship those orders in the middle of the busy Christmas season to a government warehouse, before private stores can order them from the government's wholesale website to be shipped their way. Mike Babins, co-owner of Evergreen Cannabis in Vancouver, said that producers are eager to get those products onto trucks but it is unclear how long it will take them to land in stores. At a Retail Council of Canada conference in October, Eleanor Lynch, senior VP at Vancouver-based Kiaro, said she expected the rollout of edibles during "Legalization 2.0" to be slow and steady. "It's not going to be a lot of products on the market in December," she said, with February more likely.