A new report released on Wednesday by a panel of experts convened by California’s Department of Public Health (CDPH) makes a number of major policy recommendations that would radically alter the landscape of the state’s marijuana market, for example by limiting the THC potency of cannabis flower and concentrates, requiring products be sold in plain packaging and setting up a government-run cannabis monopoly along the lines of how stores work in Quebec, Canada.
The new recommendations come in a report from the High Potency Cannabis Think Tank, which consists of scientists and public health experts tapped by CDPH “to provide analysis of the problem of increasing potency of cannabis and cannabis products and to formulate regulations to address it.”
Other recommendations include taxing marijuana based on THC potency and more strictly limiting advertising that might appeal to children.
Members of the committee represent institutions such as RTI International; the University of California in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Irvine; the University of Southern California; the University of Washington; Stanford University; the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; the Public Health Institute; and Kaiser Permanente’s research division.
The report highlights 10 top suggestions in terms of their likely policy impact,
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