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<blockquote>In most states up to that point, seed-to-sale tracking still wasn’t required, and thus was viewed as a luxury for larger businesses who could afford it; in other words, it wasn’t really being used.  Most businesses in medicinal states still didn’t know what cannabis seed-to-sale even was, but all that was about to change.</blockquote>
<blockquote>In most states up to that point, seed-to-sale tracking still wasn’t required, and thus was viewed as a luxury for larger businesses who could afford it; in other words, it wasn’t really being used.  Most businesses in medicinal states still didn’t know what cannabis seed-to-sale even was, but all that was about to change.</blockquote>
In July 2011, the U.S. state of Colorado's Department of Revenue mandated that medical marijuana products be tracked from seed to sale using radio frequency ID (RFID) tags.<ref name="SwedbergMedical11" /> In November 2012, the state's voters approved recreational marijuana as well, and, wanting to track that as well, expanded its RDIF-based tracking system.<ref name="SepulvadoLegalized14">{{cite web |url=https://www.govtech.com/public-safety/Meanwhile-In-Colorado-Legalized-Pot-Revenue.html |title=Legalized Pot Pushes Colorado Revenue Department into New Territory |author=Sepulvado, J. |work=Government Technology |date=28 January 2014 |accessdate=25 March 2019}}</ref> And then by 2014 regulatory tracking software Metrc (Marijuana Enforcement Tracking Reporting Compliance), made by the same company that provided the RFID tracking technology to Colorado, was being offered to other governments.<ref name="DeyEnabling18">{{cite web |url=https://techweek.com/metrc-marijuana-reporting-software/ |title=Enabling marijuana regulation – the Metrc story |author=Dey, T. |work=Techweek |date=November 9, 2018 |accessdate=25 March 2019}}</ref><ref name="MartinezTracking17">{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/hecparis/2017/05/17/tracking-americas-cannabis-industry-through-big-data/ |title=Tracking America's Cannabis Industry Through Big Data |author=Martinez, D.; Pflueger, D.; Palermo, T.; Brown, D. |work=Forbes |date=17 May 2017 |accessdate=25 March 2019}}</ref> These and other seed-to-sale systems arose primarily because of the legal and regulatory conflict between the U.S. government—which still declares cannabis illegal at the federal level—and states which have approved legislation making one or more types of cannabis legal, with states needing "to show [the] federal government that it is preventing the spread of cannabis into other states and to vulnerable groups such as minors."<ref name="MartinezTracking17" />


==References==
==References==

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In the cannabis industry, seed-to-sale refers to a thorough process—manual or, more commonly, digital—of tracking cannabis and related products throughout the entire lifecycle, particularly to satisfy regulatory compliance requirements.[1][2][3][4]

History

An international concept of using a "tracking and tracing" system for cannabis growth and sales as "a shift from prohibition to regulation and control" has at least been discussed as early as 2003.[5] However, at least in the United States, this concept didn't begin to fully materialize until the late 2000s. In the summer of 2009, California-based Medical Marijuana, Inc. began marketing its Turnkey Collective Solution as a tool for the fledgling medical marijuana industry to "operate within the guidelines of all laws and regulations regarding the tracking of the marijuana from grow cycle to final distribution."[6] Shortly after, in 2010 and 2011, a similar concept sprung up in Colorado in the form of BioTrackTHC[7] and LeafTrack.[8] BiotrackTHC COO Dr. Moe Afaneh describes that time period around 2010 as such[7]:

In most states up to that point, seed-to-sale tracking still wasn’t required, and thus was viewed as a luxury for larger businesses who could afford it; in other words, it wasn’t really being used. Most businesses in medicinal states still didn’t know what cannabis seed-to-sale even was, but all that was about to change.

In July 2011, the U.S. state of Colorado's Department of Revenue mandated that medical marijuana products be tracked from seed to sale using radio frequency ID (RFID) tags.[8] In November 2012, the state's voters approved recreational marijuana as well, and, wanting to track that as well, expanded its RDIF-based tracking system.[9] And then by 2014 regulatory tracking software Metrc (Marijuana Enforcement Tracking Reporting Compliance), made by the same company that provided the RFID tracking technology to Colorado, was being offered to other governments.[10][11] These and other seed-to-sale systems arose primarily because of the legal and regulatory conflict between the U.S. government—which still declares cannabis illegal at the federal level—and states which have approved legislation making one or more types of cannabis legal, with states needing "to show [the] federal government that it is preventing the spread of cannabis into other states and to vulnerable groups such as minors."[11]

References

  1. ↑ Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission (18 September 2018). "Massachusetts Seed-to-Sale Guidance" (PDF). https://mass-cannabis-control.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Seed-to-Sale-Tracking-Guidance-09182018-v-FINAL-for-Web.pdf. Retrieved 23 March 2019. 
  2. ↑ Shortt, D. (21 September 2017). "Washington Considers Recreational Homegrown Cannabis". Canna Law Blog. Harris Bricken. https://www.cannalawblog.com/washington-considers-recreational-homegrown-cannabis/. Retrieved 23 March 2019. 
  3. ↑ Lusky, M. (29 August 2017). "Member Blog: Belly Up to Cannabis Barcode Labels". National Cannabis Industry Association. 
  4. ↑ Verbora, M. (31 October 2018). "What Does from Seed to Sale Mean in the Cannabis Industry?". Canabo Medical Corp. https://www.canabomedicalclinic.com/what-does-from-seed-to-sale-mean-in-the-cannabis-industry/. Retrieved 23 March 2019. 
  5. ↑ Engelsman, E.L. (2003). "Cannabis control: The model of the WHO tobacco control treaty". International Journal of Drug Policy 14 (2003): 217–19. doi:10.1016/S0955-3959(03)00013-6. https://www.tni.org/en/issues/cannabis/item/2997-cannabis-control. 
  6. ↑ Medical Marijuana, Inc. (25 August 2009). "Medical Marijuana Inc. May Assist Collectives to Keep Within the Guidelines of California Proposition 215". Market Wired. http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/medical-marijuana-inc-may-assist-collectives-keep-within-guidelines-california-proposition-1210108.htm. Retrieved 23 March 2019. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Afaneh, M. (20 July 2017). "What Seeds to Sale Means in the Cannabis Industry". Cannabis Entrepreneur. http://www.cannapreneurmag.com/2017/07/20/seeds-sale-means-cannabis-industry/. Retrieved 23 March 2019. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Swedberg, C. (4 August 2011). "Medical Marijuana Companies Use EPC Tags to Keep Things Straight". RFID Journal. https://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?8673. Retrieved 23 March 2019. 
  9. ↑ Sepulvado, J. (28 January 2014). "Legalized Pot Pushes Colorado Revenue Department into New Territory". Government Technology. https://www.govtech.com/public-safety/Meanwhile-In-Colorado-Legalized-Pot-Revenue.html. Retrieved 25 March 2019. 
  10. ↑ Dey, T. (9 November 2018). "Enabling marijuana regulation – the Metrc story". Techweek. https://techweek.com/metrc-marijuana-reporting-software/. Retrieved 25 March 2019. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Martinez, D.; Pflueger, D.; Palermo, T.; Brown, D. (17 May 2017). "Tracking America's Cannabis Industry Through Big Data". Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/hecparis/2017/05/17/tracking-americas-cannabis-industry-through-big-data/. Retrieved 25 March 2019. 


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