The Feds Don’t Want Parents Locking Up Their Pot

As cannabis policies at the state and federal levels continue down divergent paths, Stashlogix — a company trying to help people (particularly parents) store their pot responsibly — has had an entire shipment of their child proof containers seized by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. Apparently the feds don’t want parents keeping their kids out of their stash. Shortly after Colorado started adult use cannabis sales in January 2014, Skip Stone decided he wanted to create a cool yet functional lockable stash container so his fellow cannabis parents could keep all their ganja goodies safe from their kids. “Seeing all the gummies and candy bars really helped inspired it,” Stone said, adding that — at the time — the go-to storage option for parents attempting discretion were things like shoe boxes. His solution — attractive, low-profile, smell-proof, lockable stash boxes in several sizes — hit the mark, and for the past few years Stashlogix products have been heavily featured in the cannabis media space, touted for being exactly what they are; some of the best stash bags out there. Those accolades would come back to haunt the proven line of products. In August 2016, U.S. Customs reviewed a Stashlogix shipment being delivered into the U.S. as potential drug paraphernalia, but shortly thereafter they cleared the shipment. “In October we got that product back,” Stone said. “So that was great, but we decided ‘what do we do to stop this from happening in the future?’” During the two months their seized product sat…

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