Kentucky is partnering with hashish compliance and monitoring firm Metrc for the state’s upcoming medical hashish program’s first track-and-trace contract. This system, like different medical hashish applications within the U.S., requires operators to carefully monitor every plant and the ensuing merchandise from seed to sale.
Metrc stated in a press launch that the corporate’s track-and-trace platform “will convey transparency to make sure regulatory compliance, assist fight the illicit market, and safeguard the well being and well-being of Kentucky’s sufferers.”
“As Kentucky works to ascertain its medical hashish market, we’re thrilled to have the chance to launch the state’s first-ever track-and-trace program. Our staff at Metrc seems ahead to working alongside the Cupboard for Well being and Household Providers to construct a regulatory framework that may create a market with the strongest basis, the place sufferers are assured protected consumption and licensees are offered an setting to thrive.” — Metrc CEO Michael Johnson, in a statement
The contract between Kentucky and Metrc would be the hashish compliance firm’s twenty fifth authorities contract, the corporate stated.
Whereas authorities contracts are Metrc’s major focus, the enterprise additionally just lately started servicing operators within the hashish trade immediately, MJBizDaily reported.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) signed the state’s medical hashish legalization invoice into legislation final April; underneath the legislation, registered hashish sufferers will be capable to entry hashish edibles and concentrates — however not smokable merchandise — beginning in January of subsequent yr. Beshear had beforehand signed an govt order permitting some people with extreme medical situations to own hashish.
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