A Florida-based software company will help South Dakota’s cannabis industry and its regulators monitor the flow of marijuana in the state’s legal cannabis market.
The Department of Health this month finalized a contract with Metrc, which will provide exclusive seed-to-sale tracking for the state as a medical marijuana program is implemented.
Using what’s called “radio-frequency identification (RFID),” Metrc will monitor and record the life stages of all cannabis plants and the products they eventually end up in, a process called for as a public safety precaution within the voter-approved initiated measure that legalized medical marijuana.
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