When it comes to packaging legal weed, Washington State is an outlier. Unlike Oregon, Alaska, Colorado, and every other state that allows recreational or medical cannabis sales, state law here prohibits customers from smelling their weed before they buy it. State law requires that cannabis be completely sealed in individual packages before it even enters the retailer’s premises. That means we can’t use our nose, which is one of our most powerful tools in evaluating cannabis, when we are selecting what flower to buy.
“You can’t smell the product, you can’t feel the product, and you have no idea what that product is until you get home,” said Andrew Cornwall, an owner of Origins Recreational in West Seattle. “If you could walk in and smell containers, it would definitely be better for the customer.”
