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CMV: Recreational cannabis flower doesn't need child resistant packaging and this packaging is a massive, needless source of plastic waste.

Child resistant packaging is only meant to deter 85% of 5 year olds for 5 minutes. Cannabis needs to be decarboxylated to become psychoactive, non heated cannabis flower is as dangerous to a 5 year old as lawn clippings. 

If your 5 year old has access and knows how to use a lighter or the oven, they and your community is more at risk than if you intentionally passed them a blunt and a glass of bourbon.

The packaging requirements are fairly ridiculous in every state. In mine, I have to get a massive thick child resistant plastic container, which is then placed in a child resistant plastic pouch.

I'm not required to store my cannabis in this, as soon as get home, I transfer to an opaque glass jar with an airtight lid that I've had since before legalization. I should be able to bring that jar to the dispensary and have them slap a label on it, more or less how I did back in the grey market.

I could go to the liquor store and buy a bottle of birthday cake flavored vodka, with brightly-colored packaging and a screw off cap. 5 year olds would potentially be interested in this, and it could easily kill them.

This structure is needlessly wasteful and generally dumb, its universality in legal states confuses me, especially when many of these states have banned plastic bags in grocery stores. 

CMV!
gpt
Optics is important, especially for things society sees as controversial. Many people didn’t want marijuana to be legalized for fear of children ingesting it or taking it without knowing what it was. It doesn’t matter that there would be no or a substantially small effect, they’re going to hold that fear. However, doing something like putting child resistant packaging is going to put enough people at ease to be ok with legalization. It’s more performative than functional.