A new state law is now in effect requiring medical marijuana dispensaries to prepackage their product in sealed bags instead of "deli-style" in a jar where customers could see and smell the product before buying it. The law went into effect this past Sunday.
Lawmakers said its purpose is to improve the safety and handling of the product to ensure the hundreds of thousands of patients in our state know the source of their medical marijuana. Both dispensaries and marijuana grow operations are affected by this new law.
FOX23 spoke with Savannah Evans, General Manager at Grasshopper Dispensary and a manager at a marijuana grow operation. After the law went into effect this past Sunday both dispensaries and marijuana grow operations are worried not only about their customers' experience but the financial burden this will cause with packing and handling.
"The store, the consumer, the grower," Evans said. "The stores buying stuff, I think that's really going to be kind of harsh. It'll be the industry's own little tariff."
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