With cannabis edibles becoming legal and soon arriving in the market, Windsor police are issuing an alert.
Sgt. Steve Betteridge says the edibles are a different way to consume cannabis and will act differently in the body.
He says even with that, there is one message that doesn't change.
"It's now just the next step, this will take several months. We're not anticipating seeing any of this until December or maybe even into the New Year" says Sgt. Betteridge. "But the message is cannabis in any form has an impairing quality."
Sgt. Betteridge says the community has been responsible in the first year of cannabis legalization and he hopes that continues.
"It's a legal substance, there's no question about that" explains Sgt. Betteridge. "But it is 100 per cent illegal and a serious criminal offence to get behind the wheel when you're impaired."
He says anyone who consumes an edible needs to learn how it affects them.
"People used to always say, even dealing with alcohol, this person they've been drinking for years and may process it differently versus a younger person" says Sgt. Betteridge. "Everyone's body is different and then the content of exactly what is in that edible may be processed differently by the body."
Sgt. Betteridge makes it clear that purchasing an edible from an illegal dispensary comes with huge risk because you don't known what's in it.