Wednesday, Colorado's Health and Human Services Committee voted down a bill that would have repealed a Colorado requirement that edibles be stamped or otherwise marked to be identifiable when separated from their packaging. (For example, individual candies must be identifiable as containing marijuana.)
Supporters of the bill to repeal the labeling requirement have cited challenges in labeling edibles such as liquids and loose granola, as well as cost factors involved in labeling the products. About 5 million marijuana edibles were sold last year in Colorado, according to a report in The Cannabist.
"Opponents of the bill voiced fears about unmarked edibles being given out to unsuspecting people at gatherings, parties and at school," reported The Cannabist.
Several days prior, a 23-year-old man, Luke Goodman, committed suicide after ingesting five times the recommended dose of marijuana edibles, according to a report on CBS Denver. "It was completely a reaction to the drugs," the man's mother, Kim Goodman, told CBS.
"Summit County Coroner Regan Wood says the preliminary cause of death is a self-inflicted gunshot wound. … She said the impact the edibles had on Goodman will be more clear when toxicology results come back in a few weeks," reported CBS. “It’s still under investigation,” Wood commented in the report.
Goodman's death, if attributed to the ingestion of edibles, would be the third involving the marijuana product, reports CBS.
