A new cannabis product made waves this past week, and not in a good way.
Because of its own concerns, those expressed by consumers, and the misgivings of those in the industry, our client made the decision to terminate any license granted to any third party that would use its proprietary information to produce or market a product like Canna Bumps.
But clearly THC Living didn’t merely license its technology; Canna Bumps were marketed as the newest product in the THC Living consumer line.
Full disclosure: I work for Leafly, obviously, and my own company requires cannabis brands to agree to Leafly’s terms and conditions, which prohibit product listings that are illegal, threatening, harmful, racist, sexist, or patently offensive.
In other words: We will protect consumers from harmful products, but we can’t protect a cannabis brand from its own dumb decisions.
They help keep cannabis illegal for hundreds of millions of Americans, thereby propping up the prison state, aiding in the arrest of 450,000 Americans every year, and ruining the lives and lifelong prospect of untold numbers of adults.
Their only information often comes from reefer madness presentations given by fear-mongering groups like SAM, and Mel and Betty Sembler’s Drug Free America Foundation.
They usually take place at law enforcement seminars, policy conferences, or local civic group lunch-n-learns.
Edibles that could be seen as the least bit kid-friendly are now strictly prohibited in legal states.
The people most harmed by this epic fail will likely be the millions of medical marijuana patients in the 13 states where their medicine remains illegal.
If you’re a Leafly reader, you probably know patients whose lives are significantly improved by legal access to medical cannabis.
Tens of millions of Americans have had their freedom revoked and their lives ruined by nonsense criminalization and the War on Drugs.