{"id":19699,"date":"2017-09-26T02:30:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T10:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/26\/colorado-marijuana-edibles-makers-bracing-for-new-standards\/"},"modified":"2017-09-26T12:47:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T20:47:06","slug":"colorado-marijuana-edibles-makers-bracing-for-new-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/26\/colorado-marijuana-edibles-makers-bracing-for-new-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado marijuana edibles makers bracing for new standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Kristen Nichols<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Colorado\u2019s ban on edible marijuana products shaped like animals, humans or fruits takes effect<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Oct. 1\u00a0\u2013 but manufacturers say they\u2019re prepared for the change.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 law, which\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/leg.colorado.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2016a\/bills\/2016A_1436_signed.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bans certain shapes<\/a>\u00a0of edibles, was spurred by concerns children may be attracted to gummies or hard lozenges in forms associated with common candies.<span id=\"more-75611\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cChildren are more likely to consume products that resemble familiar foods,\u201d Colorado\u2019s chief medical officer, Dr. Larry Wolk, testified before\u00a0legislators\u00a0who eventually revamped the law.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado\u00a0manufacturers seem prepared for the change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI honestly think only a handful of companies were affected\u201d by the law, said<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/colorado-marijuana-edibles-makers-bracing-new-standards\/\">Colorado marijuana edibles makers bracing for new standards<\/a> is a post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\">Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal &amp; Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nRead More: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/colorado-marijuana-edibles-makers-bracing-new-standards\/\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado marijuana edibles makers bracing for new standards<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kristen Nichols Colorado\u2019s ban on edible marijuana products shaped like animals, humans or fruits takes effect\u00a0Oct. 1\u00a0\u2013 but manufacturers say they\u2019re prepared for the change. The 2016 law, which\u00a0bans certain shapes\u00a0of edibles, was spurred by concerns children may be attracted to gummies or hard lozenges in forms associated with<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/26\/colorado-marijuana-edibles-makers-bracing-for-new-standards\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,1770,14,1771,578,18,1772,98,471],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19700,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19699\/revisions\/19700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}