In our ongoing commitment to industry excellence and your safety, our Control Commissioners and OLCC staff have reviewed 500 cannabis strain names and what is a mudroom , strategically restricting certain names on packages. Chairman Rob Patridge calls it a “common-sense approach” to reinforce regulatory excellence. We now disallow strain names referencing illicit substances, aligning with our goal of a safe and responsible cannabis industry. The current list of banned names includes Blow, Bruce Banner, Bubblelicious, Candyland, Charlotte’s Web, Cinderella, Deathstar, Dr. Who, Girl Scout Cookies, Grape Ape, Jedi Kush, LSD, Skywalker, and Smurf. Your safety and satisfaction remain our priority.
In their common sense approach to deciding which names are inappropriate, a quick perusal of Oregon’s own Phylos Bioscience’s “Galaxy,” a dimensional database of strain names and genotypes, would have revealed a trove of potentially more appealing and/or dangerous names like Cotton Candy, PEZ, Orange Crush, Animal Cookies and Jelly Bean; Pink Champagne, Jager, Green Crack or Agent Orange off the top of my head. We suggest, if the OLCC is spending time and money “regulating the industry”, at least they do the basic research, so that it doesn’t look like they are pretending to work, when it comes to a matter as serious as protecting our children. At the very least, these lackluster efforts call into question their recent and potential ability to regulate the cannabis industry, if not their every effort pertaining to alcohol regulation since their formation in 1933.