A new Colorado bill would require the implementation of technology to scan cannabis to determine whether it was legally purchased.
Colorado lawmakers have introduced a new bill which would require the development of “marijuana tracking technology” to help law enforcement distinguish between legal and illegally purchased cannabis. The bill, SB18-029, was introduced by Representatives Leroy Garcia, Daniel Pabon, Kent D. Lambert and Yeulin Willett on January 10 under the title “Development of Marijuana Tracking Technology.”
According to the text of the bill, it will require the Institute of Cannabis Research at Colorado State University – Pueblo to develop cannabis tracking technology. The bill calls for development of an “agent” that can be applied to cannabis plants or products, industrial hemp or industrial hemp products. The cannabis or hemp product would then be scanned by another device which would indicate whether the cannabis or help was “cultivated, manufactured, or sold by a licensed marijuana business or registered hemp cultivator.”
The general assembly finds and declares that the technology will benefit Colorado by increasing the ability of law enforcement to properly enforce Colorado marijuana laws, which in turn will enhance the regulated marijuana market by differentiating between legal and illegal marijuana and protect state revenue from unregulated marijuana sales.
Further, the bill instructs the Institute of Cannabis Research to find a vendor to develop the technology to the satisfaction of the state licensing authority. Once this technology is determined to be an effective means of tracking cannabis and hemp, the state licensing authority will create rules which require the technology to be used by licensed cannabis businesses. In addition, the commissioner of the Department of Agriculture will create rules that require registered industrial hemp cultivators to use the technology. Finally, the bill would require that the technology be made available to law enforcement throughout the state.
The actual text of the bill reveals more details about what exactly constitutes an “agent” and what kind of tracking technology might be employed in pursuit of catching gray and black market users and dealers. As noted, the bill would require cannabis and hemp dealers to “insert unique and traceable identifiers” into legal medical and retail cannabis and industrial hemp. But what would this technology look like?
According to the text of the bill,
The Institute may determine whether the marijuana tracking technology should be nanotechnology; isotopic; chemical, or biological identifiers; other available technology; or a combination of any technologies.
Yep. You read that right. The Colorado bill for tracking legal cannabis purchases may use nanotechnology, or isotopic, chemical or biological identifiers. What does that mean for your health? Will there be any risks associated with smoking this new nanotech weed? Time will tell, but hopefully studies will be conducted before this technology is pushed on the people of Colorado and spreads elsewhere.
One final intriguing note is the mention of a “distributed ledger” to catalog all of this data. The bill states that the “identifiers” used to track the cannabis must be coded into “secure records using distributed ledger technology that, in compliance with federal guidelines and industry best practices, will be accessible by law enforcement agencies or the department of revenue.” Although the bill does not explicitly state it, a distributed ledger could be a reference to the state of Colorado using technology similar to the Blockchain, a distributed ledger that is used for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Will this technology be a part of Colorado’s new efforts to track pot users?
At the end of the day the bill is a perfect illustration of how big of a joke the War on Drugs has become. The people of Colorado have decided they want to use cannabis recreationally and medically. However, instead of being free to do so they had to convince the legislature to leave them alone. Now that the law has changed, the lawmakers want to continue exploiting the prohibition of drugs like cannabis by pursuing “illegal” users.
Legalization of cannabis in Colorado (and elsewhere) was never about freeing the people from the tyranny of government. It was always about putting the state tyrants in charge of what you can and cannot smoke. This is why the authorities are spending more money and time trying to smoke out the users and dealers who still choose to operate on the peaceful gray and black markets. These entrepreneurs and their customers represent the last threat to the State’s complete control of the cannabis market.
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Sounds horrifying. I wonder how safe this untested stuff will be especially if the coercive apparatus of the state is used to poison products in the name of taxation and control.
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Wow that’s horrifying. Hopefully this will get shut down, it would create a scary precedent for overwhelming government control over people’s ability to know exactly what is in their consumables. If they can do it to cannabis, what other markets would they implement this tracking on, and what kind of shortcuts are going to be made when it comes to testing the long term effects of these technologies? Resteeming to spread awareness! Thanks for the post
It is pretty intense to consider what this could easily snow-ball into.
Just remember, black & grey markets are the way to go! If the state stops kidnapping people for having a plant, that's a win... and it doesn't mean you need to pay the state "taxes" on that plant. Just keep getting it from that same old hippie, without the concern of doing something "illegal"
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They can test the DNA of the plant and link it back to the farm it came from. The DEA has done it here in Oregon already.
Ridiculous! Even a single cent spent doing that should've been spent trying to catch a violent criminal or not spent at all.
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Thanks for sharing the post and talking about the reference to the distributed ledger technology. I saw it earlier on a LinkedIn Thread and mentioned I don't think adding nanoparticles or tracking is a good idea. However, I think bringing the cannabis industry onto a blockchain is the future, it will come to the Cannabis Internet soon, I am making sure of that.
Too bad the govt's have now taken over the industry, with that comes more violence and theft by them. I write about the emerging cannabis space, mostly focusing on the Canadian sector and cannabis investing. I recently wrote about how there is an ACT in front of the House of Representatives called the Marijuana Justice Act, it's quite the interesting times we live in within the Canna World.
Thank you for informing us about this!
Personally, I believe in the right to grow and consume any plant. Only having the option of buying cannabis laced with nanoparticles would drive me to the black market.
Remember, if they've "legalized" it, then it's no longer black market, but grey :-) Either way, unless one morally agrees with the actions of the state (genocide, extortion, kidnapping, et al), it's our responsibility to use the black & grey markets rather than feeding the beast.
As a medical grower for many years, I couldn't agree with you more. I refuse to contribute to the destruction of millions of innocent lives via taxes. Taxes are how they pay for wars, chemtrails, and the police state we live in. So it seems only rational to not pay. support your local grower
I hope millions of users feel the same. I know I do. These government scum bags will stop at nothing in their attempts to turn cannabis into something that makes people sick. They also need to keep their for profit prisons full and make sure everyone is paying their extortion bill (taxes). Cannabis won’t be “legal” until it is completely unregulated, like any other herb.
No effect whatsoever. We're talking about inserting an extra maybe 20-50 DNA bases into a genome of a billion or so bases. Would be totally undetectable unless assayed using specialized molecular diagnostics methods.
Also, the DNA added would be chemically indistinguishable from the As,Ts,Cs and Gs already in the genome, so really the chemical characteristics of the plant would remain essentially unchanged except they'd now contain the short barcode sequences that would "look" like regular DNA in every regard except their specific sequence, which would be unique to the engineered strain and therefore trackable. @dbroze
You probably think GMO corn is safe too. Good luck.
that would make a lot of sense. but Colorado legislature has no details on how they will track it yet.
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governments should leave cannabis alone. Cannabis is only a plant, individuals can decide whats good for them and whats not.
thats dumb just grow it urselves its legal! we are gods pepole take back your power! i literally bought the seeds online and u can grow anything u want do anything u want! even if it hurts others although u will be hurting urself if u do that
That is a scary thought. Why would people go to so much trouble to do something so pointless?
Some corporation is getting paid a bunch of money (or hoping to) by some government officials who want to look like they're doing something important (they're not) so they can keep their jobs.
that is rediculous
Wow , this is pretty incredible. Needing to read more up on this.
It will also give them the ability to track the sale of organic pure strain Cannabis vs the GMO cannabis that is being flogged all over Colorado. Excellent report my friend!!
Insanity reigns. Control freaks and power mongers should sit in a room and smoke a few joints together instead of fearfully stressing their minds to find ways to further control people, money, and things. The torch of freedom burns brightly in an ongoing saga of the human race. When we stop to consider that in comparison with the masses, these power mongers are only the few, it kinda makes me scratch my head and wonder......WHY? I think they have us hypnotized.
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Pretty fucked up if you ask me i dont want anythi g put on sprayed on my greenbud there is already to much shit put on them to control bugs my god the next thing you know people will be getting cancer from smoking pot just like gross ass cigs fuck the goverment over grow them.
That sounds like such a needlessly complicated system.........glad i just blow glass
I’m so glad that they basically forced farms in Oregon to stay fairly organic. Yeah I know they allow some low amounts of inorganic compounds, but the majority would rather keep their “organic” reputations.
I really don’t feel like something like this would fly here. But you never know.
Really sucks for Colorado though. And the entire industry really. Spraying down entire farms with some chemical that makes it “traceable,” but can’t be copied by people on the street. Sounds safe to inhale to me...
Don’t see this starting any weird conspiracy theories or anything lol...
Great post ! Colorado should first worry about how to get their flower to be as good as California Flower! haha
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