Well, it looks like all those bright, colorful, fancy-pants treats with marijuana in them — lollipops, gummy bears, cupcakes on sticks, fish-shaped crackers, etc. — will NOT be available in your local marijuana retail store. And you can blame the kids!

Cannabis-infused products have proliferated in medical marijuana markets as entrepreneurs have created an ever-growing range of creative products. The board is attempting to keep these treats from kids, especially those who might mistake them for regular ol’ treats.

Related story: In case you missed the state’s memo: Don’t give/sell marijuana to kids!

The Liquor Control Board approved “emergency” rules today that essentially ban these products. And you can be sure, the board has put itself in charge of approving every product pitched for sale in an I-502 store.

The state rules now say:

“A marijuana processor licensee must obtain approval from the liquor control board for all marijuana-infused products, labeling, and packaging prior to offering these items for sale to a marijuana re­tailer. The marijuana processor licensee must submit a picture of the product, labeling, and packaging to the liquor control board for approval.”

To help protect adults from eating too much of an infused products (a mistake we’re calling the “Maureen Dowd” … follow the link to know what we mean). The board is also requiring …

Marijuana-infused products in solid form that contain more than one serving must be scored to indicate individual serving sizes, and labeled so that the serving size is prominently displayed on the packaging.

Marijuana-infused products must be homogenized to ensure uni­form disbursement of cannabinoids throughout the product.

All marijuana-infused products must state on the label, “This product contains marijuana.”

Oh, and you’ll have to make your own marijuana butter …

… a marijuana processor may infuse dairy butter or fats derived from natural sources and use that extraction to prepare allowable marijuana-infused solid or liquid products meant to be ingested orally, but the dairy butter or fats derived from natural sources may not be sold as stand-alone products.

You’ll still get a wide selection of stuff infused with cannabis … we’re just not sure what they’ll be or look like yet.

Similar action on edibles was recently taken by Colorado.

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