TIL a wild story from the history of cannabis policy.

In 1972, President Nixon appointed the Shafer Commission to get data to back his anti-drug agenda.

But the bipartisan commission went off-script. They unanimously recommended DECRIM.

Nixon was so mad he buried the report.

Does your state have consumer protection laws on stickers?

Have these laws/rules had an impact on your business marketing?

If you could change one marketing rule in your state, what would you change?

The move to continue to require inventory tracking, while taking away the ability to report inventory to the regulator is not a novel choice.

Oklahoma did something similar in Oklahoma when OMMA did not have a vendor-managed solution in place.

State laws continued to require licensees track their inventory, while OMMA hosted a survey-style reporting solution.

This is what regulatory capture looks like in practice.

NYS has already contracted with BT to deliver a product.

The ink is dry.

Deadlines have already been set up. People have made investments.

But because Metrc wants to play monopoly, we've thrown out the baby with the bathwater, and left an entire government agency and it's customers on hold.

Our 2021 estimate suggests that Washington State would generate 30,000kg/yr of waste is created from RFID tags.

This is the waste from just one farm in CA

While the RFID tags have benefits for large-canopy farms, these gains really only benefit State enforcement.

What benefits does RFID bring to your business? Is the expense to your business, or the harm done to our landfills worth it?

Here's an early look at our design for a cannabis compliance MCP server.

In this scenario, a user can tell an AI agent which lots they want to ship.

The agent will follow through by working with a MCP server.

MCP servers enables AI to operate another platform. Think API and browser automation.

If you could tell every single customer one thing about your flower that isn't its THC %, what would it be?

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