Every state with a legal marijuana program has a unique regulatory framework. Navigating those different rules while still maintaining quality standards can be a compliance high-wire act for multistate cannabis operators.
To ensure products don’t run afoul of state regulators while simultaneously adhering to internal quality goals, executives at several MSOs advise other marijuana companies to:
Dedicate an entire team to quality control and compliance. Maintain an in-house testing lab and test often. Develop a library of detailed standard operating procedures that serve as a playbook for working in different markets.
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“We have a compliance team that’s dedicated to all things around the legal side of the language that’s embedded in each state,” said Todd West, executive vice president of operations at Cresco Labs, a vertically integrated multistate cannabis company based in Chicago.
Finger on the pulse
Knowing the ins and outs of each state’s regulations
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