Lucas C. McCann is a regulatory consultant, an author and a synthetic organic chemist by trade. Lucas holds the position of Chief Scientific Officer at CannDelta, a Toronto-based regulatory and scientific cannabis consulting firm where he provides scientific oversight on all their projects. Lucas’ science background combined with his acquired knowledge of controlled substance analysis within Health Canada’s Inspectorate Labs has catapulted him to the frontlines, where technology and cannabis regulation interface. He specializes in chemical synthesis, laboratory practice and industrial scale processing as well how they pertain to Health Canada’s Cannabis Regulations.
Lucas is an author of a second-year university textbook called “Organic Chemistry Laboratory Techniques”, which is currently being used in Universities, such as University of Ottawa, Vanderbilt and Texas A&M (Corpus Christie) University.