Anyway, there was a line to speak, so I eventually got in it. I brought with me a box of many, many thousands of Metrc track and trace RFID tags that we're required to use.

I brought it as a prop, since if this is all theater, props are called for.

Briefly, we used to be required to have 3 licenses (with redundant compliance requirements, insurance, bonds, etc.) just to put some seeds in pots full of dirt, grow them in the sun for a while, then sell them when they're ready to transplant. This spring, we transitioned to a Microbusiness license that allows us to do all of those things will less duplication.

But we had thousands and thousands of these plant and package tags. The bureaucrats can just push a button and transfer all of these tags to our new license, right?

Nope. We have to order new ones and these have to be destroyed. We were supposed to cut or mark through the barcode of each one — of many thousands — by hand before disposing of them.

#FuckThat