# How would legal marijuana be packaged? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 31, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-legal-marijuana-be-packaged/548709 "2010-07-31T19:50:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-legal-marijuana-be-packaged/548709/1 "2010-07-31T19:50:00Z")
Ok, so one day marijuana is legalized. How exactly would you buy it? Would it be in a package containing a certain weight of loose marijuana and you’d buy your own papers or bong? Could you buy a pack of 20 joints like any other pack of cigarettes? Marijuana brownies being sold at Starbucks in the baked goods? ---
**Author:** ![mariposalabrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@mariposalabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mariposalabrown)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-legal-marijuana-be-packaged/548709/2 "2010-07-31T20:11:29Z")
It’s legal here in Denver on the state level. You can buy by grams, eighths etc. and they will put it in a bag, mason jar, or these dark brown little medicine bottles. You can buy it in cookie, rice krispie treat, ice cream, olive oil, tinctures, blah blah blah EVERYTHING. You can buy them rolled in joints if you can’t twist. Basically, it comes in basicially anyway you want. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2010, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-legal-marijuana-be-packaged/548709/3 "2010-07-31T21:48:25Z")
I was just in amsterdam with a friend and he had a joint that was the classic cone shape, obviously machine made and in a little green plastic cone, sort of like you would package a cigar. I kept thinking of those[vend a pen](http://www.gameroomantiques.com/Photo/VendPenA.GIF) dispensers back in high school where you put the quarter in and got a pen out. I suppose you could do it with a 2 euro coin, or whatever they cost =) ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2010, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-legal-marijuana-be-packaged/548709/4 "2010-07-31T21:57:34Z")
Why wouldn’t it be packaged like tobacco? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2010, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-legal-marijuana-be-packaged/548709/5 "2010-07-31T22:21:12Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Why wouldn’t it be packaged like tobacco? I gather that there are more ways to consume it than to smoke it. Nobody makes tobacco brownies, do they? For that matter, is it possible to make marijuana snuff? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2010, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-legal-marijuana-be-packaged/548709/6 "2010-07-31T22:41:24Z")
Granted, pot is used in more ways than tobacco, but much of the use is similar: smoked. Tobacco is sold as cigarettes, cigars, snuff and loose. I don’t know about snuff, but the smoking uses suggest similar packaging to tobacco. I suspect that MJ brownies might be a lesser use under legalization. Surely illegal use generates different practices than legal use. Maybe brownies wouldn’t be all that popular if the ingredients didn’t have to be disguised or hidden anymore. If the law didn’t say that drinking alcohol in the open was illegal some places, brown bags around open bottles wouldn’t be necessary. ---
**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2010, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-legal-marijuana-be-packaged/548709/7 "2010-07-31T23:34:18Z")
Packaged how it’s packaged now. In bags. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2010, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-legal-marijuana-be-packaged/548709/8 "2010-07-31T23:49:24Z")
> [@mariposalabrown](#): > > It’s legal here in Denver on the state level. You can buy by grams, eighths etc. and they will put it in a bag, mason jar, or these dark brown little medicine bottles. You can buy it in cookie, rice krispie treat, ice cream, olive oil, tinctures, blah blah blah EVERYTHING. You can buy them rolled in joints if you can’t twist. Basically, it comes in basicially anyway you want. When did this happen, and more inportantly, why do I not live there? ---
**Author:** ![mariposalabrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@mariposalabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mariposalabrown)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-legal-marijuana-be-packaged/548709/9 "2010-08-01T00:00:23Z")
Brownies are huge sellers in Denver, lots of people don’t want to smoke anything. To sell it you have to cook from a legally certified kitchen, but you can buy the butter from some dispensaries. Most people use them instead of sleeping pills bc they knock you on your ass. And I believe it’s been legalized for years here, as for why you don’t live here? Pack the car. I have a medicinal marijuana prescription for cramps. Costs 190 with fees and lasts a year. Plus, it’s nice to go to a dispensary and try different strains, they have variety. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-legal-marijuana-be-packaged/548709/10 "2010-08-02T13:08:08Z")
I find it odd that everyone talks about the California one as if it’s a big deal, but it’s no big thang in Denver (Colorado, I assume?) ---
**Author:** ![gladtobeblazed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@gladtobeblazed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gladtobeblazed)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-legal-marijuana-be-packaged/548709/11 "2010-08-02T13:57:28Z")
Why would I buy it in joints when I have a fancy $100 pipe? ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-legal-marijuana-be-packaged/548709/12 "2010-08-02T14:10:22Z")
Pessaries. Sell it as as pessary too. Then everything’s covered. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-legal-marijuana-be-packaged/548709/13 "2010-08-02T15:10:53Z")
But the word “pessary” always reminds me of “cassowary”. :eek: Still, if that’s how my head works \*without \*Mary Jane, I really must make plans to move to Denver. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-legal-marijuana-be-packaged/548709/14 "2010-08-02T17:33:48Z")
I have doubts about selling pre-rolled joints in anything approaching the size of a tobacco cigarette, as that is a **lot** of weed for most people to have solo at one sitting, and putting out then re-lighting cigarettes is yucky. As with alcohol, I think it would be sold in such a way that one “serving” wouldn’t be enough to get you wrecked. Maybe little pinners? Dutchies or loose would be my choice. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-legal-marijuana-be-packaged/548709/15 "2010-08-02T17:40:18Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > I have doubts about selling pre-rolled joints in anything approaching the size of a tobacco cigarette, as that is a **lot** of weed for most people to have solo at one sitting, and putting out then re-lighting cigarettes is yucky. I was thinking really thin cigarettes. Like you say, a single serving. Other aspects of legal MJ commerce could be interesting to see. Things like brand names, advertising and merchandising. What would the MJ version of the Marlboro Man be? ---
**Author:** ![mariposalabrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@mariposalabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mariposalabrown)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-legal-marijuana-be-packaged/548709/16 "2010-08-02T18:00:34Z")
The joints are 8 bucks, 5 on Sundays. A little smaller than a cigarette. They really only sell them to get you in there and buy an eigth, which is usually 54 dollars. As for marketing, it would probably be something dumb and immature stoner, like a mushroom with bloodshot eyes. Some of the stuff here is tacky as hell! ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-legal-marijuana-be-packaged/548709/17 "2010-08-02T18:22:20Z")
In other words, just like current head shop motifs. I’m trying to imagine what the “Big Pot” companies would do to try and create new images to expand into untapped markets. I could see them showing a big burly guy smoking a J after a day spent logging. Or a brand aimed at artsy types showing a late evening party with a lot of doobage around. ---
**Author:** ![mariposalabrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@mariposalabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mariposalabrown)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-legal-marijuana-be-packaged/548709/18 "2010-08-02T19:30:24Z")
The people who grow the best stuff hate companies like that, and right now the government is trying to get money by making bigger fees for dispensary owners. As for why California is the being talked about, they are trying to make it straight up legal for everyone. Here in Colorado it is medicinal, you have to have the scrip and paperwork to walk into a dispensary. I also apologize if there are typos, I hate posting from my phone. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-legal-marijuana-be-packaged/548709/19 "2010-08-02T19:38:35Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > I have doubts about selling pre-rolled joints in anything approaching the size of a tobacco cigarette, as that is a **lot** of weed for most people to have solo at one sitting, and putting out then re-lighting cigarettes is yucky. Marijuana cigarettes can also be made from _leaf_, or a blend of leaf and less-potent buds. I expect to see ready-made marijuana cigarettes available in a wide range of strengths, including _very_ mild ones. ---
**Author:** ![filling\_pages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-legal-marijuana-be-packaged/548709/20 "2010-08-02T20:06:34Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > In other words, just like current head shop motifs. > > I’m trying to imagine what the “Big Pot” companies would do to try and create new images to expand into untapped markets. I could see them showing a big burly guy smoking a J after a day spent logging. Or a brand aimed at artsy types showing a late evening party with a lot of doobage around. My friends and I joke all the time about how nice it would be to just run down to the corner store and pick up a pack of Marlboro MJs or Camel Greens. Maybe go the blunt route and grab some two-for-one Swisher Sweet Jamaicans. There’s an urban legend that all the major tobacco companies already have their pot-selling campaigns ready to roll, complete with logos, package design, and advertising plans. Just waiting for the day it’s legal. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-legal-marijuana-be-packaged/548709.md?page=2)