Websites all over the internet offer information about the many strains and variations of marijuana and marijuana products — both legal and illicit. Now the Cannabis Control Commission is launching its own online catalog of the myriad marijuana products available to adults and patients at the state’s pot shops and dispensaries.
The first-in-the-nation regulators’ catalog won’t exactly compete with Leafly and Weedmaps — don’t expect genetic information or flavor profiles. The idea is to compile basic information and photos in one place so that regulators, consumers, parents, and law enforcement can get a better sense of the type of products that are part of the still-young legal cannabis world, and so they can better discern between legal products and illicit ones.
Once the catalog embedded on the CCC’s newly redesigned website is fully operational, users will be able to search by product name, keyword, product category, and other identifiers to verify the ingredients, packaging and labels, potency, retail locations, and more about state-sanctioned cannabis buds, vape products, edibles, pre-rolls, and topicals. It launched Monday with a more limited set of capabilities. [Read more at The Boston Globe]
