Nearly a dozen states allow the use and sale of marijuana for recreational purposes, and policies around the world vary. Broad marijuana sales began in
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
He said the show is waiting to see if marijuana becomes more legal, at least in the
“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.
Keep co-founder
But Gartner analyst
Last year, CES also banned an innovation award winner, a vibrator made by a female-founded startup. That led to complaints that CES was being tone deaf on diversity. CES ultimately relented and allowed space for sex tech companies this year as a trial.
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