How to Hide Weed From Kids
Marijuana is becoming legal in more and more places, which means more and more people are bringing pot home. Whether you prefer discreet vape cartridges, sticky nuggets, tasty edible treats, or countless varieties of concentrates, one thing remains the same: you should keep these things out of the reach of your kids.
California enacted new regulations this month requiring all products to be shipped in child-resistant packaging, a step up from the child-resistant bags dispensaries use to package your entire order. They can be tricky for kids to open, but the problem is that most people don’t keep groceries in their bags when they bring them home. From July 1 in California: “All cannabis products must be in child-proof packaging, and just having a child-proof outlet or secondary packaging is no longer enough.”
So the industry is getting more creative – and relying on old reserves. Pill bottles, for example, are popular because their child-proof lids are easy for adults to open – you’ve undoubtedly opened hundreds of such bottles in your lifetime – but still get in the way of most young children. All Pax Era capsules come in a pill bottle-like flip-top packaging, and MarijuanaPackaging.com sells a black stash glass jar with the same child-resistant lid as a high-end pill bottle suitable for concentrates. or flowers.
Crativ makes a plastic case perfect for eating, it doesn’t lock, but it’s very difficult to open – you have to push the sides and then push the latch in the front to open the lid. When you run out of edible treats, you can recycle the crate or use it for any number of kid-friendly items.
Of course, keeping weed out of the hands of your kids isn’t just a matter of the industry – it’s up to you, their parents. Fortunately, there are a million ways to do this. Here are some ideas to get you started.
Disguise it
Do you know what children are not fond of? Instant coffee cans. A large old box of prunes. You can repurpose some very boring empty packaging into a stash for your stash, especially if the stash is still in the child-proof packaging and just needs to be out of sight. Or get a $ 12 Personal Vault that looks like a can of meat. Want a hideout that’s also lockable? When was the last time your kids took a dictionary from your bookshelf? AmazonBasics has book safes that can be locked with keys or combination locks for under $ 13.
Shut it down
Speaking of locks, if you already own a safe this is the obvious choice or even one of these fireproof boxes for keeping your important documents. For about $ 9, this waterproof wallet will help keep the smell of grass off your mortgage and Social Security cards.
Better yet, grab a dedicated safe for your stash – and you don’t have to shell out $ 150 to $ 300 on Cannador , a fancy lockable humidor specially designed to keep cannabis flowers fresh, although you certainly could. But any old box, which is locked, suitable , for example BUYaSafe for 40 dollars , which is locked with a key. Other safes allow you to program a combination, like the Vaultz, which come in different sizes, like this $ 20 drawer or this $ 10 drawer that can slide inside a desk drawer.
Turn to the Internet of Things
Looking to improve your security even further? Use the sensor to notify your phone every time your stash is accessed. For example, if you store your belongings in a safe, attach a motion sensor to the safe door, or use a door / window sensor to know when it is open.
Which one depends on your setup if you’re already using any IoT hardware – there is a $ 49 Nest Detect for Google Home households and you can find affordable motion sensors for Samsung SmartThings hubs ($ 25), a Wink system that perfectly combined with Alexa (29 US dollars), Elgato Eve the Motion ($ 50) or Eve Door & the Window Sensors (US $ 40) for HomeKit settings, the sensor D-Link ($ 39 US), which can be automated using IFTTT , etc.
Watch it
You can monitor your hideout with a cheap Wi-Fi camera like the Wyze Cam v2 , which costs only $ 20 and does not require cloud storage fees. He can notify you when he sees movement and provide video evidence of what happened. (It can also send you a notification if the smoke detector goes off, which hopefully doesn’t have to do with your kids finding your stash.) If you have an old smartphone or tablet, you can install the Manything app to repurpose it as CCTV camera compatible with IFTTT .
Use a child lock device
Pax makes portable vaporizers that pair with Bluetooth with a mobile app that gives them additional features such as adjustable temperature, various modes and locking. If you touch the lock icon in the app, the vaporizer will not work until you unlock it again.
This works with Pax 3 ($ 300), which vaporizes flowers and concentrates, as well as Pax Era ($ 30), which only works with compatible concentrate capsules, and this feature can be just as useful for roommates. as well as for children.