Thats great news and a fantastic way to launch the program itself. I think this is all a great idea.
That being said if I put myself in the shoes of an average joe I don’t know why I’d care. Its “safer”, but all the products are being tested, right? (Just hypothetical argument).
It’s important to know that the organic cert, and equivalent, allows companies to sell products for a higher price. Same logic should apply to the GLGc, but in my experience most GLG guys are making top shelf product and its hard to swallow the prices as is.
GMPs don’t provide final product specifications. That is decided by an independent and separate quality unit within the business as described in 21 CFR. The GMPs just give the minimal expectations for manufacturing conditions. They don’t tell you how to meet said conditions. That part is up
To you. The FDA just assumes you are operating in accordance.
I can really appreciate the amount of experience and info sharing you guys have put together. And I do see the need for some kind of cannabis industry focused certification process for people not doing just simple extractions (like people doing CRC or D8 conversions).
But I’ll be honest, anything with the three letters GLG is going to make me run for the hills fast. There is nothing about GLG that inspires thoughts of a professional organization, which is what would inspire trust… which is what a certification is all about. And IMO you cannot build that kind of trust around GLG. You would be better off with another label for the certification, honestly. Keep the expertise, keep some of the people even, but you would be best off leaving any straitforward connections with this forum out of your certification. Call it the Good Cannabis Cert or something professional, but for gods sake try not to connect it to the GLG label or this forum.
My two cents on that. Wishing you the best guys, keep on keeping on.
Have you done business with any of the gang? I know 99% of the interactions I’ve had with GLG members has yielded greatly for all parties involved and it’s always been pain free for me.
Plus the amount of heavy hitters we have on the discount program is pretty impressive.
Andddd the lil meetups are a networking powerhouse event
I don’t think that’s the point. The cert program wouldnt hold any weight in the industry for long if it’s associated with stoners. It needs to be presented in a professional manner.
The gang has 100s of member businesses run by wealthy people from many different previous occupations that could care less what the organization is called because we provide an insane value proposition.
That’s like saying the forum wouldn’t hold any weight because its just a bunch of stoners.
But 3 years in and the constant I crease in traffic, citations in the media, and being the defacto source for the expansion of cannabis processing knowledge proves that theory completely inaccurate.
and that’s str8. I disagree though