Sep27

Written by:di
9/27/2010 3:37 PM 

In the past year, I have been amazed at all of the red tape that has been born to this industry.  The requirements are sometimes laughable.

I have been impressed with the companies out there that have really risen to the challenge and started producing legitimate brands. 

We used to have to fight with certain edible vendors who came through our doors for any kind of label to identify their product's ingredients, potency and suggested dosage.  Our staff had to become guiney pigs to try the products before we would put them on our shelves. 

Invoice?  What are you talking about?!  Scheduled orders? Eh, what?

But the times they are a changin' and recently we have aligned ourselves with some great vendors.  They have great packaging, with dosages and ingredients.  A little symbol at the bottom shows us that their product is tested in a lab.

These are all things that are great for our industry.  We need to adopt standards of practice so that the medicine that people get is exactly what they are expecting.

So although the hoops are sometimes a pain, we are commited to jump through them in an effort to legitimize this business and get the focus back where it's needed: to the patient.