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In Colorado, the legal cannabis industry is booming. Since the legalization of recreational marijuana back in 2012, the state has benefited in myriad ways. The government has used the tax revenue from legal pot sales to fund K-12 education and housing development. The rate of opioid-related deaths has decreased. Indeed, the Colorado Chief Medical Officer has stated that there haven’t been any significant issues due to cannabis legalization. And yet, the Colorado cannabis industry seems to be missing something: a marijuana tracking system.
Marijuana Tracking System
Cannabis tracking systems are far from a novel idea. Legal marijuana businesses have been using seed-to-sale technology for years. But, still, the state of Colorado has proposed the implementation of such a system in a new bill. The technology that Senate Bill 18-029 calls for, however, seems to be a bit different:
The bill requires the insitute of cannabis research at Colorado state university—Pueblo (institute) to develop marijuana tracking technology. The technology must include an agent that is applied to a marijuana plant, marijuana product, industrial hemp, or industrial hemp product and then scanned by a device.
The bill then goes on to ask for the scan to accurately say whether or not the cannabis or hemp product was grown, manufactured and distributed legally. Because lawmakers, and not by scientists or engineers, wrote the bill, ideas and suggestions for the specifics of such advanced plant scanning technology were not provided.
Final Hit: Colorado Proposes A Marijuana Tracking System In A New Bill
At first glance, this level of technology seems pretty cool. With only a scan, dispensary owners (and law enforcement) would be able to determine the exact origin