Rob, This is all good. However, let me tell you and NACB a little story: I was in the CD ROM and DVD business for 20 years. I owned and ran the largest privately owned consumer software company, Topics Entertainment. (I did OK for years, and it allowed me to fund Marijuana Venture magazine) In the CD ROM and DVD business there was always talk about packaging and what styles and box shapes were best. Ultimately it all meant nothing. When Wal Mart dictated that all DVD products would have their UPC code on the upper right hand corner, everyone from Disney on down complied. When Wal Mat, Best buy and Costco dictated packaging size and styles to software publishers, the same thing happened. Microsoft complied as did everyone else in the industry. Bottom line: retailers will ultimately dictate packaging in this business as they have in ever other. Reply
After reading the NACB’s newly released Packaging Standards I was shocked and disappointed. Though I agree and understand about the need for child safe packaging, the specification of plastic as a packaging requirement is ill advised, unnecessary and dangerous to the environment. Nowadays, with all of the newly formed regulations for pesticide free, clean- green cannabis, shouldn’t the package that this legitimately organic medicine be sold in be held to some environmental standards as well? Packaging cannabis in plastic is hypocritical. It is inconsistent with the otherwise stringent testing for pesticides, molds and other contaminants. The main culprits in this ecological disgrace are single use plastics like the ubiquitous water bottle. A single plastic beverage bottle takes over 450 years to break down in landfill and will not ever completely breakdown in the ocean. Let’s not add doob tubes, flower drams and plastic baggies to this toxic mix. Reply