Pharmacies Curaleaf Packaging Change

[BudGuy]

Dear Patient,

We have been informed by our supplier that the Curaleaf range of flowers will be packaged differently from the 10th of March 2025.

What does this mean for me?
With effect from the above date the flower will continue to be packaged inside the pouch that you are familiar with but will be further packaged inside a printed box.

Currently the pharmacy dispensing label is attached to the pouch as it leaves Curaleaf Pharmacy, but this label will now be attached to the product box instead. The outer delivery packaging in which your products arrive by courier will not change.

It is important to note that, if you intend to travel or leave home with your medication, you should keep the pouch inside the box so that the dispensing label is always visible.

Please note that there are no changes to the medication itself.

Initially this new packaging will only be for ‘Curaleaf’ branded flower products, however in the near future we anticipate other affiliated brands will also arrive in the same box packaging.

This is good, I think? I find the prescription label flaying around on the packet quite annoying. I usually cut it off, laminate it and stick it in my wallet, and take it with me when I'm out with flower.

I think I'd much prefer plastic tubs to mylar bags to be honest, and I tend to decant it into my own jars at home anyway, and just put a bit back in the pack whenever I leave home with it.

Imo they should put a prescription label on the box, but also a few spares inside that you can adhere to the mylar packet or whatever other storage mechanism you choose for yourself.

My next script is March 11 so I should be one the first with the new packaging. I'll let you know how it looks .

 

[node]

This is probably for the robot.

 

[BudGuy]

This is probably for the robot.

Which robot?

 

[Lank72]

Is this just for people who are with Curaleaf clinic, or anyone who receives any Curaleaf flower product via any clinic / pharmacy ?

It's certainly not for the patient this is it? People who want to leave the house with medication have to carry a pouch inside a box? How big is this box going to be?

Sounds like a load of shite to be honest

 

[node]

Which robot?

UK Thread 'Inside the UK’s Largest Medical Cannabis Facility: How Curaleaf is Transforming Patient Access'

5th Mar, 2025

The UK boasts one of the fastest-growing medical cannabis markets on the planet, and according to Prohibition Partners upcoming Global Cannabis Report: 5th Edition, around 60,000 patients were treated with medical cannabis in the UK throughout 2024.

However, unlike markets such as Germany, where growth has been driven by a major regulatory change, the UK’s growth is driven almost entirely by its operators and their continued commitment to innovation.

One such company, Curaleaf Laboratories, has invested significantly in the UK and its state-of-the-art facility in Sunderland...

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[GrownHealth]

Sounds like the product will be better protected in transit but lugging round boxes of meds would be a pain in the backside.

 

[node]

Like I've said This company = amazon of bud, they will automate as much as they can, even to the detriment of patients, it seems.

 

[Lank72]

That's one of the best thing about the packs, much easier and less bulky to carry around

 

[BudGuy]

Sounds like the product will be better protected in transit but lugging round boxes of meds would be a pain in the backside.

Yeah hopefully the label is not so well fixed to the box it can't be removed and adhered elsewhere.

 

[BudGuy]

Is this just for people who are with Curaleaf clinic, or anyone who receives any Curaleaf flower product via any clinic / pharmacy ?

It's certainly not for the patient this is it? People who want to leave the house with medication have to carry a pouch inside a box? How big is this box going to be?

Sounds like a load of shite to be honest

The message came from the pharmacy rather than the clinic, so I would think that means anything coming out of the pharmacy regardless of clinic, but not entirely sure.

They do say they foresee in the future that this outer box will also fit around the packaging of stuff NOT from Curaleaf pharmacy as well though, so that would imply that it's a clinic thing rather than pharmacy thing?

Not sure, very strange.

 

[BudGuy]

Like I've said This company = amazon of bud, they will automate as much as they can, even to the detriment of patients, it seems.

To be fair, the only reason any medical patient would want to keep the flower in its original packaging at all times is to make encounters with security/law enforcement etc as smooth as easy to prove as possible. If these sorts of encounters stopped being so adversarial and we had, for example, a universally accepted government cannabis card or something instead, then however Curaleaf chooses to package and label their product is really of no real consequence to the patient.

So I don't think it's fair to ask them to refrain from making a change that's more economical for them if the only reason is to stop something else from happening that shouldn't be happening anyway.

It's probably similar to their position on dishing out legal help for their patients. They're doing something legal, so they shouldn't really have to - it's not their fault that the police/justice system is so inept on MC. It's nice when a clinic does compensate for the poor behaviour of other sectors of society, but there's no expectation that they have to.

 

[LunaDracarys]

Sounds like the product will be better protected in transit but lugging round boxes of meds would be a pain in the backside.

As long they package it right like add extra secure wrapping paper to stop the tubs from knocking around which’s then bashes the flower making it dusty broken etc.

 

[BudGuy]

As long they package it right like add extra secure wrapping paper to stop the tubs from knocking around which’s then bashes the flower making it dusty broken etc.

My prescription is finallyyyy with DPD so answers tomorrow.

 

[BudGuy]

Ah well, nevermind, all my Curaleaf flos arrived the same way it usually does lol. In the mylar pouches with the prescription label adhered to the pouch. No outer box as described. Must be a delay in that particular change.