California pre-roll brands have a new regulatory concept to watch in 2026: the “multipack.” The California Department of Cannabis Control has proposed regulations that would formally establish multipacks as a category of cannabis good and create specific testing, labeling, and track-and-trace requirements for them. The important word is proposed. As of August 2026, DCC-2026-01-R has […]
A packaging bill of materials sounds like an internal operations document. For a multi-state cannabis company in 2026, it is becoming much more useful than that. States are asking producers and licensees for increasingly detailed packaging information. Extended producer responsibility programs are creating new reporting and recordkeeping obligations. Cannabis regulators may require documentation on the […]
The package that looks best in a sample meeting is not necessarily the package that runs best at 60, 100, or several hundred units per minute. For cannabis brands moving into higher-volume production, packaging needs to be evaluated as part of the filling and assembly process. This becomes especially important once a company is ordering […]
Hair care brands often need more than one packaging format across a product line. A shampoo may need a bottle, a conditioner may use a pump or squeeze bottle, a hair mask may fit better in a jar, and a styling cream or scalp treatment may work better in a squeeze tube or applicator format. […]
A cannabis company does not need to hate its current packaging supplier before qualifying a second one. For a multi-state operator, regional brand, or high-volume product company, a second source can be a form of supply-chain insurance. The difficult part is qualifying that supplier without accidentally redesigning the package. A backup supplier is only useful […]
Infused pre-rolls are no longer a niche extension sitting at the edge of the cannabis shelf. They have become one of the most important segments in the pre-roll category, and that changes the packaging decision. Headset reported that infused and connoisseur formats accounted for 48.5% of U.S. pre-roll sales in Q1 2026. Multipacks represented 54.2% […]
There is no useful one-line answer to the question, “How much does custom cannabis packaging cost?” A 5,000-unit child-resistant bag program and a 50,000-unit custom tin program have completely different cost structures. Even two packages that look nearly identical can price differently because of material, decoration, closures, inserts, tooling, freight, production quantity, and how many […]
Medical cannabis packaging has to solve a slightly different problem from packaging built only for an adult-use retail shelf. The package still needs to protect the product, meet applicable child-resistant requirements, survive distribution, and support the brand. But depending on the state, a medical cannabis program can also introduce patient-specific labeling, dosage information, batch traceability, […]
Concentrate packaging has a harder job than its size suggests. A jar holding a small amount of rosin, wax, badder, live resin, or another extract may sit in direct contact with a high-value product for weeks or months before it reaches the consumer. During that time, the package has to protect the concentrate, maintain its […]
Search for cannabis packaging long enough and you will see the terms child proof packaging and child-resistant packaging used as if they mean the same thing. They do not. “Child proof” sounds like an absolute claim: a child cannot open the package. The regulatory terminology is child-resistant, and that distinction exists for a reason. Child-resistant […]