Lawmakers Introduce Bills Regulating Marijuana To Offer More Protections To Children
One of the added regulations would prohibit the sale of products in the “shape of a person, animal, insect, fruit, or in another shape normally associated with candy.”
Sacramento Bee:
CA Bills Limit Design And Packaging For Marijuana Products
Much of the campaign last year to legalize recreational marijuana in California was spent trying to reassure skeptical parents that it would stay out of the hands of minors. Proposition 64 included provisions to block sales and advertising near schools and youth centers, mandate child-proof packaging, and strip licenses from businesses that sold to anyone under the age of 21. That wasn’t enough for some lawmakers, who have introduced legislation this session to expand the safeguards in the initiative, such as a requirement that marijuana products not be designed “to be appealing to children or easily confused with commercially sold candy or foods that do not contain marijuana.” (Koseff, 5/9)
In other news —
Capital Public Radio:
Sacramento’s Cannabis Chief Starts New Job
Joe Devlin is Sacramento's first pot boss. He was hired to lead the three-person Cannabis Office of Policy and Enforcement that is tasked with overseeing the recreational marijuana industry. (Moffitt, 5/8)
Los Angeles Times:
California Proposes New Rules And Standards For Marijuana Testing Laboratories
Laboratories that test marijuana for medical use in California will have to be licensed and show their employees are properly trained, and will face strict guidelines for how to conduct examinations of samples, according to rules proposed Friday by the state Bureau of Marijuana Control. The bureau hopes to begin issuing licenses for the cultivation, transportation, testing and sale of medical marijuana in January and has been rolling out proposed regulations for public input. (McGreevy, 5/5)