Your company also has a MMJ line. How do you feel about medical Cannabis and how can your product help? Laws for opioids are getting stricter and stricter, which is good for the Cannabis industry, and if you are in pain, you are going to look for a way to deal with your pain, and people need a safe way to know how to ingest their Cannabis. You need to know if roommates get into your stash; if they know that you know, they won't do it. So, we have three points that are the same for opioid abuse and Cannabis. Finally, it is just like any other drug, so if it is in the house with children, it needs to be in child-resistant packaging and people need to know when it is safe to get behind the wheel. We have them in different sizes for concentrates and for vape pens and flowers, and so you get to know the last time it was opened, and if it’s in a car and you haven't used it, that could be very useful information.
You also co-brand your product with Rite Aid, CVS and weed dispensaries. How does that help a Cannabis company?
What problems do you see with the way prescriptions are currently dispensed?
How does TimerCap solve this issue?
Pharmacies are allowed to sell pill organizers that don't meet or exceed drug safety laws in states they are sold in. You can dispense into a non-descript pill box, leaving emergency workers wondering what a person might be taking. That's tantamount to a car dealer disabling car seats and air bags. It’s ridiculous. When you go into a pharmacy, there are safety laws for a reason. The fact that you can turn around from the pharmacy and put in a new package that they sell for profit is hypocritical. Do they believe in the safety info? Do they believe in what the doctors wrote? If we have laws, we should enforce the laws. In an environment where 50 percent of the population doesn't take medication as it is prescribed, I believe we are setting people up for failure without compliant packaging.
There are three main points. First, it lets a patient know the last time they opened their medication. Secondly, it’s a household deterrent; anyone can know the last time a medication was opened, and the ability for misuse or theft/abuse is deterred through awareness of it being opened. It’s a diversion, detection and awareness tool. The final point is that it maintains the complaint nature of the original packaging with the legally required information listed.
One of the things that we really encourage is that we are a great first-time gift for dispensaries to hand out. While it’s a good thing for patients to buy, we customize our caps for dispensaries and the dispensaries that use us for first-time patients see a huge benefit. This is one of the best viral tools a dispensary can hand out. Spending a few dollars on getting a branded viral marketing tool and giving the patient a memory tool to remember the dispensary, plus a way to remember how to measure when it’s safe is the best social responsibility tool a dispensary can hand out. The companies that choose this show that they are smart marketers and have a tangible way to show corporate responsibility as well as the benefit to the community.
“IT’S A DIVERSION, DETECTION AND AWARENESS TOOL.” FEB. 2017 FACEBOOK.COM/NWLEAF
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