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RE: Canada drug store chain to use blockchain to trace cannabis
I think one primary goal is standardization which will give growers/suppliers and consumers a better level of safety when it comes to the product they are consuming. I see it as a step towards proper supply chain management. There will always be black markets but for the clear markets this could be a good thing.
You have to remember that the governments are largely controlled by the big pharma lobbies and that they will do anything to keep their power and control over the populace.
I’m still not exactly sure how they are thinking they are going to be proactive through crypto markets? A crypto markets advantage is the ability to stay i the dark... it just seems counter productive if accountability is the goal.
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Also, from how government entities have handles this subject in the past this is honestly the only black market I feel safer in than allowing any government to continue to regulate a product that really requires no need for regulation. If your worried about safety..: grow your own the same way of someone is scare of salmonella, they grow there own vegetables.
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At this point I am for anything that is different from the status quo. In Colorado testing has shown large numbers of samples to be contaminated with various chemicals from shitty fertilizers and other additives idiot growers use. This caused them to start instituting testing to ensure cleanliness of the product. So there is a need for tracking and safety whether industry or government, at least the process will be started and can be augmented to work better as they learn more.
If safety of the product were to be the only thing monitored I could understand that. However, I think the responsibility lies at the feet of the consumer in that instance, not the foot of the government.
I think we both agree already that big Pharma not only controls, it owns. But how... through money of course... marijuana is a huge industry and if government has shown us one thing repetitively in the past is that the rules we create usually aren’t followed by those who can afford not too.
Buying off politicians and such seems to be just a cost of doing business when it comes to money making markets.
For being the responsibility of the consumer I think it would be way more effective than any government strategy would ever work.
For instance... I grow marijuana... organic marijuana in Michigan. I use absolutely no pesticides at all. All my fertilizers are made with table scraps and compost... I use predatory insects in place of pesticides and my end product usually shows it with s shell of two of lady bugs. However... for my patrons I test every product I distribute. There is a lab open to the product called iron labs in widow Michigan that tests every level of food and medicine in their facility.
Every person that buys from me is given a copy of the test results weather they asked for it or not. I do this because I want people to know what they are getting when they come to me. When I purchase cannabis, I expect the same. Testing is absolutely key to ensure purity. I agree with that. That does not need a law to be established though... it needs consumer drive and people willing to say that they will not buy a product unless it reaches a certain verifiable standard by the purchaser.
It just seems that this is another way of allowing the government more power that what they should hold in any one area.
To each his own of course. I still think it’s a dangerous game of trust fall going on.
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