Take better care of your pot.

Assemblyman Kevin Rooney (R) introduced legislation to require edible marijuana to be placed in locked containers.  If you kept your "stash box," break it out again.


Then perhaps they should require a lock box for the liquor cabinet also


I use this, keeps my pots spotless. 


Formerlyjerseyjack said:

Assemblyman Kevin Rooney (R) introduced legislation to require edible marijuana to be placed in locked containers.  If you kept your "stash box," break it out again.

Over the years, I've had so many little tin and wooden boxes, cans, hollowed-out books, stash pots, film cannisters, hidey holes, medicine bottles, coffee cans, potted plants, and so much more. 


I don't like over-legislation, but I don't disagree with this. After all, children were eating Tide pods and they taste like detergent. Packaging was changed and a public relations campaign was launched to keep them from ingesting them. A nice tasty edible might be too much for kids to resist and too much for them to ingest. 


KarenMarlowe said:

I don't like over-legislation, but I don't disagree with this. After all, children were eating Tide pods and they taste like detergent. Packaging was changed and a public relations campaign was launched to keep them from ingesting them. A nice tasty edible might be too much for kids to resist and too much for them to ingest. 

Then you should also agree with Blackcat that liquor should be legislated into lock boxes. Flavored liquors and alcoholic spritzers can be very appealing to kids. 

More so than with pot considering the toxicity of alcohol. How many put users have had liver failures or died of overdosing? 


RTrent said:

KarenMarlowe said:

I don't like over-legislation, but I don't disagree with this. After all, children were eating Tide pods and they taste like detergent. Packaging was changed and a public relations campaign was launched to keep them from ingesting them. A nice tasty edible might be too much for kids to resist and too much for them to ingest. 

Then you should also agree with Blackcat that liquor should be legislated into lock boxes. Flavored liquors and alcoholic spritzers can be very appealing to kids. 

More so than with pot considering the toxicity of alcohol. How many put users have had liver failures or died of overdosing? 

Your point? Is there legislation pending on this issue? The bill doesn't call for lockbox on flower or on cartridges. I might agree with it. Me? I am in my 60s. No small children, but I would certainly put alcohol out of reach of children. My parents put their alcohol in a cabinet above our refrigerator. High enough to prevent small children to reach it. 


RTrent said:

KarenMarlowe said:

I don't like over-legislation, but I don't disagree with this. After all, children were eating Tide pods and they taste like detergent. Packaging was changed and a public relations campaign was launched to keep them from ingesting them. A nice tasty edible might be too much for kids to resist and too much for them to ingest. 

Then you should also agree with Blackcat that liquor should be legislated into lock boxes. Flavored liquors and alcoholic spritzers can be very appealing to kids. 

More so than with pot considering the toxicity of alcohol. How many put users have had liver failures or died of overdosing? 

that's a silly argument. If a kid eats a few gummies they're likely to start freaking out. That's a lot more likely than drinking enough alcohol to give a similar effect. (and of course the effect is not similar at all anyway.) And they'd have to do it for years for toxicity to take effect.

CDC statistics don't even show anyone under 15 dying of alcohol overdose, despite the fact that liquor is unlocked.

https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/alcohol-poisoning-deaths/index.html


RTrent said:

KarenMarlowe said:

I don't like over-legislation, but I don't disagree with this. After all, children were eating Tide pods and they taste like detergent. Packaging was changed and a public relations campaign was launched to keep them from ingesting them. A nice tasty edible might be too much for kids to resist and too much for them to ingest. 

Then you should also agree with Blackcat that liquor should be legislated into lock boxes. Flavored liquors and alcoholic spritzers can be very appealing to kids. 

More so than with pot considering the toxicity of alcohol. How many put users have had liver failures or died of overdosing? 

My parents' liquor cabinet had a key.  We had sips of it as children from our parents cups, and it tasted terrible. We were taught about the risks as teens. There are warnings on the labels. Everyone knows you are not allowed to buy it for those who are underage.

Edibles don't have a distinctive or unappealing taste to distinguish their presence. So, if it looks like candy without having noticeable enough warnings to prevent kids from eating them, kids don't have a way to know they are taking a drug. 

Many have ended up unknowingly ingesting THC this year and ended up in the hospital, from kids to senior citizens. Like cigarettes, alcohol, and medication, this new legal drug need labels and warnings on packages, as well as publicized legal consequences that makes it clear that you will be punished for giving this drug to unsuspecting people, like this wedding couple did: 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/23/florida-bride-caterer-charged-marijuana-food-wedding

Perhaps like medicine, child-proof cap containers could be helpful for candy-like edibles. Pot is recreational for some. For myself, it was nearly tragic.



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