Well, hallelujah.
Some changes – albeit very small ones – are coming . . .
When Canada legalized, the legislators deemed it absolutely necessary to hide all cannabis products from consumers – even when they are in an adults-only cannabis store buying cannabis. They thought that if we could actually see a product – rather than just nondescript envelopes and opaque containers - it might make us go crazy and actually want to buy it. And we would take that product and its pretty package home where are children would snatch it from our hands as soon as we walked in the door, consume it and turn into heroin addicts and die of a fentanyl overdose. Or something.
Anyways, they are going to allow clear windows on packages so we can actually see bud or seeds in the package! Not on concentrates or edibles – because of the children of course.
The other big packaging change is a bit silly but it is something . . . for the first time. they will allow more than a single 10mg edible in a consumer package – as long as inside the outer package each 10mg unit is still in an individual interior package. So like a pack of Juicy Fruit – each stick of gum can be 10 mg, inside an outer package that contains 100 mg.
And last but not least, they will simplify the numbers on the package and drop the requirement for actual THC and CBD and allow producers to show only the Total THC or CBD numbers. Confused? We always were . . .
See Canada Gazette, Part I, Volume 158, Number 23: Regulations Amending Certain Regulations Concerning Cannabis (Streamlining of Requirements)
So . . . they are throwing us a few crumbs . . .
Some changes – albeit very small ones – are coming . . .
When Canada legalized, the legislators deemed it absolutely necessary to hide all cannabis products from consumers – even when they are in an adults-only cannabis store buying cannabis. They thought that if we could actually see a product – rather than just nondescript envelopes and opaque containers - it might make us go crazy and actually want to buy it. And we would take that product and its pretty package home where are children would snatch it from our hands as soon as we walked in the door, consume it and turn into heroin addicts and die of a fentanyl overdose. Or something.
Anyways, they are going to allow clear windows on packages so we can actually see bud or seeds in the package! Not on concentrates or edibles – because of the children of course.
The other big packaging change is a bit silly but it is something . . . for the first time. they will allow more than a single 10mg edible in a consumer package – as long as inside the outer package each 10mg unit is still in an individual interior package. So like a pack of Juicy Fruit – each stick of gum can be 10 mg, inside an outer package that contains 100 mg.
And last but not least, they will simplify the numbers on the package and drop the requirement for actual THC and CBD and allow producers to show only the Total THC or CBD numbers. Confused? We always were . . .
See Canada Gazette, Part I, Volume 158, Number 23: Regulations Amending Certain Regulations Concerning Cannabis (Streamlining of Requirements)
So . . . they are throwing us a few crumbs . . .
