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Wait, I’m confused. So these bags have presumably been allowed for sale on Amazon since the early days of the site, but now that marijuana is legal in more parts of the U.S. than back then, they’re banning them because one of many possible uses for the bags involves marijuana… which again, is now MORE legal than it was when the bags could be freely sold. No part of this makes sense.
I can see them not having a problem with clear bags, but what’s the difference between a single-colored bag and a multi-colored bag? Wouldn’t the single-colored bag be opaque? Or do they mean a single color tint that you can see through? Then why not a multi-colored tint you can see through? What if it’s a single-colored bag has words (like Have a Nice Day) imprinted in a different color; is that considered multi-colored? I agree with lessthanthreerecords that this doesn’t make much sense.