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Industry pushes OMA for clearer timelines on prepack, barcodes, Metrc units and FBI background checks
Summary
Licensees told the OMA advisory council that recent packaging, labeling and tracking changes are causing operational strain; the agency provided effective dates and said it will build interim manual processes while licensing software is updated.
At its July 9 meeting the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana AuthorityExecutive Advisory Council discussed timelines and operational questions about recently enacted laws and associated rule changes, including prepack labeling, patient-card barcodes, the unit-vs.-weight handling in Metrc and fingerprint background checks.
Council member Randy Hendricks and other licensees told the council that prepack labeling and the new unit/weight requirements are straining cultivation, processing and delivery operations. Members asked how Metrc and OMA would track packaged units that had previously been accounted by weight and whether Metrc could treat a prepacked bag as a single unit for inventory and reporting.
Hendricks said the prepack rule had been implemented June 1 and that more than 50,000 packages…
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