Yes and no, and the difference is the whole story. Since 12 March 2025, Canadian regulations allow one outer package of edible cannabis to hold more than 10 mg of THC in total. They still do not allow a single gummy, chocolate or mint to contain more than 10 mg. So a 100 mg edible package in a legal Canadian store is ten separate 10 mg units sold together in one box. The per-unit limit did not move. If you have read that Canada raised the edible limit to 100 mg, the summary has been compressed until it broke.
Here is the change in full, what it looks like on a shelf, and what it means for buying and for keeping cannabis at home.
The short version
- 10 mg per unit is unchanged. One gummy, one chocolate, one mint, one sachet of drink powder: still capped at 10 mg of THC.
- The outer package cap was removed. The old rule capped total THC in the outermost container at 10 mg, which is why edibles were sold one unit at a time for six years.
- A different cap still applies to the outer package. It cannot hold more than the equivalent of 30 g of dried cannabis.
- 100 mg is a market convention, not a legal number. Nothing in the regulation names 100 mg. Producers settled on ten units of 10 mg because that is a tidy package.
- Everything about the product itself is the same. Same potency per piece, same onset, same labels, same child-resistant requirements on the individual containers.
What SOR/2025-43 actually did
The instrument is called the Regulations Amending Certain Regulations Concerning Cannabis (Streamlining of Requirements). It was registered on 26 February 2025 and published in the Canada Gazette, Part II on 12 March 2025, coming into force the day it was published.
It is a housekeeping package rather than a single dramatic reform. It touches packaging, labelling, testing, reporting and record keeping across several cannabis regulations at once. The edible provision sits in the middle of it, which is part of why it was easy to misread.
The operative sentence in the Gazette is that the amendments remove the cumulative 10 mg THC limit for an outermost container of edible cannabis product, so that multiple immediate containers can be packed together, as long as each immediate container does not have more than 10 mg of THC.
Two terms are doing the work there, and they are worth learning because they appear all over Canadian cannabis rules.
Immediate container
The container the cannabis is actually in. For edibles this is the sealed pouch, blister cell or wrapper holding one piece. The 10 mg cap attaches here, under section 102.7 of the Cannabis Regulations, which states that edible cannabis must not contain a quantity of THC that exceeds 10 mg per immediate container.
Outermost container
The box, tin or bag you carry out of the store. Before March 2025 it also carried a 10 mg ceiling, which meant the outer box could only ever hold one dose worth of THC no matter how it was arranged inside. That ceiling is gone. The outer container is now limited by weight rather than by potency.
Before and after, in a table
| Rule | Before 12 March 2025 | Now |
|---|---|---|
| THC in one immediate container, the individual unit | 10 mg maximum | 10 mg maximum, unchanged |
| Total THC in the outermost container | 10 mg maximum | No cumulative THC cap |
| Total cannabis in the outermost container | Equivalent of 30 g dried | Equivalent of 30 g dried, unchanged |
| Mixing products in one co-pack | Not applicable | The properties of the cannabis must be consistent across all immediate containers |
| Packaging date on the outer container | Required | Not required on the outermost container of a co-pack |
| Child-resistant requirement | On the immediate container | On the immediate container, unchanged |
Why 100 mg is the wrong way to describe it
Nothing in SOR/2025-43 sets a 100 mg figure. The regulation removed one cap and left a different one in place, and the number that emerged in the market is simply what producers chose to make.
Work through the arithmetic and you can see how much room the rule actually leaves. The outer package is limited to the equivalent of 30 g of dried cannabis. Health Canada's equivalency table treats 1 g of dried cannabis as equal to 15 g of cannabis solids, the category most edibles fall into. So the outer package ceiling for a box of gummies is 450 g of product by weight, not by THC.
A typical 10 mg gummy weighs a few grams. That means the weight cap is nowhere near the binding constraint on a ten-pack. The practical limits on what gets built are commercial and provincial, not a 100 mg line in the regulation.
This matters because the shorthand leads people to the wrong expectation in the store. Nobody is going to hand you one 100 mg gummy. What exists is a box of ten, each one exactly as strong as the single units that have been on shelves since 2019.
The 30 g equivalency, and why it is worth knowing
The same 30 g figure governs two separate things, which is a common source of confusion.
First, the outermost container of any cannabis product is limited to the equivalent of 30 g of dried cannabis. Second, under section 8 of the Cannabis Act, an adult may possess in public cannabis amounting to no more than the equivalent of 30 g of dried cannabis. In Ontario, the AGCO states plainly that customers cannot purchase more than 30 g of dried cannabis, or the equivalent, at one time.
Health Canada publishes the conversion table. These are the figures.
| Class of cannabis | Amount equivalent to 1 g of dried cannabis |
|---|---|
| Fresh cannabis | 5 g |
| Cannabis solids containing 3% THC or less, which covers most edibles | 15 g |
| Cannabis non-solids containing 3% THC or less | 70 g |
| Cannabis concentrates containing more than 3% THC | 0.25 g |
| Cannabis beverages containing 3% THC or less | 570 g |
| Cannabis plant seeds | 1 seed |
Read that against a shopping basket and the numbers stop being abstract. Because edibles convert at 15 g of product per 1 g of dried equivalent, a few boxes of gummies use up very little of a 30 g allowance. Concentrates convert at 0.25 g, so they use it up roughly sixty times faster by weight. If you have ever wondered why a small jar of hash counts for so much more than a large bag of chews, that ratio is the answer.
We have written separately about how milligram figures are presented on Canadian labels in CBD vs THC: reading the numbers on the package.
What a co-pack looks like on a shelf
The format is now common across Canadian provinces. Here is what to expect when you pick one up.
- An outer box or tin carrying the brand name, the standardized cannabis symbol, the yellow health warning message, and the total THC and total CBD for the package.
- Ten sealed units inside, each in its own immediate container, each one child resistant, each one at or below 10 mg of THC.
- A single set of properties throughout. The regulation requires that the properties of the cannabis be consistent across all the immediate containers in a co-pack, so a mixed box of different cannabinoid ratios is not what this permits.
- No packaging date on the outer container. The amendment dropped that requirement for co-packs, so the date you want may be printed on the inner units instead.
Ten units is the common build, but it is not a legal requirement. You may see packages of five, or of twenty at lower per-unit potency. Read the package rather than assuming the format.
What did not change
This is the part most worth knowing, because almost everything stayed where it was.
- The 10 mg per-unit cap. Unchanged, and Health Canada was explicit that THC limits on immediate containers remain the same.
- Onset timing. Edible cannabis has a delayed onset compared with inhalation, typically in the range of 30 minutes to two hours. Packaging ten units together does not alter that.
- The standardized cannabis symbol. Still required on the label of any cannabis product containing more than 10 micrograms of THC per gram, still in the upper left of the principal display panel, still at least 1.27 cm square.
- The health warning message. Still required in its yellow box on the principal display panel, still rotated across containers so the different messages appear in roughly equal numbers.
- Child-resistant immediate containers. The requirement attaches to the immediate container, not the outer box. This is a point worth pausing on, and we come back to it below.
- The public possession limit. Still 30 g of dried cannabis or its equivalent, unchanged by this regulation.
- Who may sell it. Only provincially authorized retailers and provincial online stores. Nothing in SOR/2025-43 touches that.
What it means when you are buying
Three practical consequences.
You are buying units, not a dose
A box marked 100 mg total is a count, in the same way a package of ten single-serving coffee sachets is a count. The figure on the front is arithmetic across the box. The figure that describes what you are actually holding in your hand is the per-unit number, and it is still 10 mg.
Compare per unit, not per box
When two packages sit beside each other, one at 100 mg total and one at 10 mg, they are not different strengths. They are different quantities of the same strength. Compare the number of units and the per-unit content, and then compare price on that basis.
The date may have moved
Because the packaging date is no longer required on the outermost container of a co-pack, the date you would normally check on the front may now be on the inner units. If freshness matters to you, open the box and look.
If this is your first time working through a Canadian cannabis shelf, First Time in a Dispensary? covers what to expect at the counter, and our guide to edibles in Ontario covers the category in more depth. You can also browse what we carry before you come in.
What it means at home
The most useful thing to understand about co-packs is where the child-resistant requirement sits.
Under the Cannabis Regulations, the immediate container must be child resistant, meeting the test set out in the Food and Drugs Regulations. The outermost container does not have to be. For six years that distinction rarely mattered, because the outer box held a single unit. Now the outer box can hold ten, and the two containers are doing different jobs.
The practical reading is straightforward. The child-resistant protection lives on the individual sealed unit. Once a unit is opened, that protection is spent. A co-pack is therefore a box of ten separately protected items rather than one protected item, and how it is stored at home matters more than it used to.
Storage advice for cannabis generally is in How to store cannabis. For edibles specifically, the points that carry over are keeping product in its original labelled packaging, keeping it well away from food that is not cannabis, and keeping it out of reach of children and pets. The label is not decoration. It is the only thing on the package that tells you what is inside once the box is open.
Why the old rule existed at all
The 10 mg cumulative limit on an outer container came in with the edibles regulations in 2019, and the logic behind it was conservative: a new legal category, an unfamiliar format with a delayed onset, and a regulator choosing the cautious setting.
The cost of that setting was packaging. Every 10 mg of THC required its own complete outer package, with its own label, its own warning, its own symbol and its own box. Ten doses meant ten boxes. Producers and retailers raised the waste question repeatedly, and it is the most concrete thing the 2025 amendment fixed.
The change does not lower the wall on potency. It just stops the same wall being rebuilt ten times over.
Where to read it yourself
Primary sources, in the order we would read them.
- SOR/2025-43 in the Canada Gazette, Part II. The amendment itself, with the Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement explaining the reasoning.
- Health Canada's summary of changes following the streamlining regulations. Shorter, plainer, and the fastest way to see the whole package.
- Health Canada's packaging and labelling guide. The working reference for what must appear on a label and where.
- Health Canada's public possession calculator. The equivalency table, in the government's own numbers.
The same regulation changed how packages look
SOR/2025-43 did more than co-packs. It also permitted cut-out windows and fully transparent containers for dried flower, different colours for lids and containers, QR codes, accordion and peel-back labels, and printed inserts. The transition on the label changes ran until 12 March 2026, so Canadian shelves have now largely turned over. We have written that side of it up in Why your cannabis package has a window now.
If you want to see a co-pack rather than read about one, we are at 811 Dundas St W in Toronto and our staff can walk you through what is printed on any package on the shelf. Hours and directions are on our visit page. They can explain a label. They cannot give medical advice, and we do not make claims about what any product will do for you.
To recap
Canada did not raise the edible THC limit to 100 mg. It removed a cumulative cap on the outer box, kept the 10 mg cap on every individual unit, and left the 30 g dried equivalent ceiling in place on the package as a whole. The result on the shelf is a ten-pack rather than a stronger gummy. Read the per-unit number, check where the date is printed, and treat the individual sealed unit as the thing that carries the child-resistant protection.