In the retail cannabis industry, labeling and regulation go hand in hand.
The UCIL includes information such as product form, cannabis strain, product weight, serving or dose size, THC/CBD content, and health warnings.
The companion symbol, the UCPS, borrows from a familiar caution-sign design, incorporating a cannabis leaf inside a yellow triangle.
“In the process of developing our labeling standards, we’ve listened to stakeholders and made changes to the UCIL and UCPS as we receive good feedback,” Dr.
Nathan: Wherever I travel, I listen closely to the regulatory priorities shared with me by various stakeholders in the cannabis space.
The hodgepodge of different state requirements has led to some terrible package designs, which fail to serve the needs of industry and the public.
Nathan: Most of our outreach has been with key decision makers in the cannabis regulatory bodies of several states.
Thus far, several state regulators have expressed an interest in adapting and adopting these standards.
One such group is at the University of the Sciences — formerly the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Science — which published a 2019 report on labeling standards that closely fits with this label design.
We obviously can’t have regulation without legalization, and legalization will no doubt be coupled with some level of federal regulation.
President Biden — who was once a fierce drug warrior — supports decriminalization but not legalization, and that may be the largest obstacle to federal legalization.
This is a rare example of bipartisanship among Democratic and Republican lawmakers in Congress, and it’s likely that their numbers will grow as candidates for office increasingly recognize that legalization is a winning issue.
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