MARIJUANA COMPLIANCE
MARIJUANA COMPLIANCE:
COMPLIANCE AND HELPING YOU
GROW YOUR BUSINESS
BY JAMES MINUTELLO, COFOUNDER AND CEO, LEAF LOGIX TECHNOLOGIES
CANNABIS is big business! As with
many big business arenas, there are
mandated regulations at the local, state,
and federal levels. For the emerging
marijuana industry, those regulations are
fairly strict when covering compliance
and traceability, a core requirement for
the state that passes laws to legally
grow, process, distribute, and sell
cannabis products. Michigan has chosen
a state software platform named Metrc
as the solutions provider for compliance
and traceability regulations.
Metrc provides a platform from which
growers, processors, distributors, and
retailers can update the state with
required regulatory data via a screen
interface or an application programming
interface (API) where more business-
comprehensive third-party solutions
providers can send and retrieve data
electronically. For example, Metrc does
not support the growers, processors,
distributors, and retailers’ processes or
SOPs.
Simply put, Metrc was designed to
provide the state with the traceability
and reporting it requires. That is where
other software companies enter the
market by providing solutions for these
growers, processors, distributors, and
retailers. These third-party software
companies may provide one or more
parts of the entire cannabis chain while
others will provide the entire vertical
solution.
When selecting a software solutions
provider, you want to choose a company
that meets the needs of your business’s
work flow while also being an approved
vendor to the state Metrc system.
And it should provide these features
effortlessly and intuitively.
If you are a cultivator, you want a
product that will offer real time Metrc
updates, keeping your company in
compliance while allowing your staff to
operate using best-case practices for
your company’s needs. Features should
exist that allow you to track plants
and clones from the very beginning
through curing and bulk flower release
to your processing team. Your cultivation
product should have the ability to
manage waste, plant changes, room/
table/location movements, notes and
journals, nutrients, plant yield tracking,
destruction of inventory, and use