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The Oregon Health Authorities has revised its rules on sweet pot treats, prohibiting medical marijuana dispensaries from offering products that are "attractive to minors."

(The Associated Press)

The Oregon Health Authority on Monday issued revised rules for marijuana-infused products, allowing the sale of baked goods and other sweets but banning marijuana-laced sweets "attractive to minors."

The Medical Marijuana Dispensary Program

that barred marijuana retailers from selling marijuana-infused products "manufactured in a form that resembles cake-like products, cookies, candy, or gum, or that otherwise may be attractive to minors because of its shape, color, or taste."

Tom Burns, who oversees the state's dispensary program, said his office received up to 300 emails from medical marijuana consumers who strongly opposed banning marijuana-infused cookies, brownies and cakes. Many argued that consuming foods containing cannabis is safer and more palatable than smoking.

The revised rules, which went immediately into effect, prohibit dispensaries from offering products that are "attractive to minors," which includes brightly colored food or items shaped like "an animal or any other commercially recognizable toy or candy."

The rules also address how the products are packaged. Products cannot be wrapped in "a container that is brightly colored, depicts cartoons or images other than the logo of the facility, unless the logo of the facility depicts cartoons, in which case only the name of the facility is permitted."

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