A Canadian cannabis tech company has pulled out of the CES gadget show after being given constraints on how it could promote its products.
sales began in Nevada in 2017. Las Vegas, where CES takes place, is now home to what’s claimed to be the world’s largest cannabis dispensary, Planet 13.
But CES organizers say marijuana's acceptance isn’t widespread yet. CES organizers prohibited Keep Labs from mentioning the word cannabis, showing cannabis in promotional materials or discussing what the Keep device does. "We don't allow pornographic. We don't allow content where children are killed. We don't allow anything with vaping,” said Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, which organizes CES. “Marijuana has been a tougher one for us.”“It is changing very quickly, and I wouldn't be surprised if we changed it sometime in the future as well,” he said.
Keep Labs was awarded a prestigious CES Innovation Award in October for its “Keep” home cannabis storage device. It connects wirelessly to an app and lets users unlock the storage unit with a fingerprint or facial recognition. After CES placed limits on what Keep can show, the company decided it was better not to attend at all.
Keep was to be one of about 4,500 companies exhibiting at the four-day CES show, which opened Tuesday.Planet 13 dispensary’s marketing specialist, Brandon Zimmer, said he was surprised by organizers' decision, given that CES is supposed to be a showcase for tech innovations. He said cannabis tech is an exciting field, with lots of invention and new devices.Last year, CES also banned an innovation award winner, a vibrator made by a female-founded startup.
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