The Maine Senate has authorized laws that might make it simpler for producers to label sure kinds of marijuana edibles, together with gummies.
The invoice, Legislative Doc 2147, maintains the overall rule requiring Maine’s common THC warning image on hashish edibles and different merchandise.
Nevertheless, the textual content of the laws permits Maine’s Division of Administrative and Monetary Companies – the guardian company of the Workplace of Hashish Coverage – to find out “that stamping, embossing, particular person wrapping or blister packaging for a specific sort of edible hashish product is impracticable.”
In such instances, “every serving of the product have to be packaged collectively and the common image affixed to the packaging.”
The textual content affords chips, popcorn, pretzels, unfastened granola and gummies as examples of marijuana edibles that could possibly be impacted by the brand new labeling rule.
Maine Hashish Trade Affiliation Coverage Lead Alex McMahan advised Portland TV station WGME that the rule change is “a step in direction of breaking the stigma and getting the stigma out of statute.”
“Having to mark each particular person serving of our edibles is simply one thing you don’t see in every other business,” McMahan stated.
The laws, handed Tuesday by the Maine Senate, has not but been signed into regulation by Gov. Janet Mills.
Detailed details about the laws is obtainable right here.
Solomon Israel might be reached at solomon.israel@mjbizdaily.com.