Licensed cannabis retailers are in strict compliance with their state’s minimum age requirements and nearly always deny access to underage patrons. That’s according to compliance check data provided by regulators in California, Colorado, Washington, and several other states.
For example, data recently provided by Washington’s Liquor Control and Cannabis Board (LCB) finds that state-licensed cannabis retailers are more likely than alcohol proprietors to deny those without proper ID entry to their facilities. Since 2015, state regulators have conducted over 7,800 compliance checks of licensed cannabis establishments. (The LCB uses the term “compliance check” to specifically refer to a controlled purchase attempt by a patron between the ages of 18 and 20.) In over 94 percent of cases, minors were denied cannabis access.