GPS tracking of medical marijuana is in the works this week.  Your medical marijuana may be provided to you at a dispensary (center) where your finger print will be scanned to insure that you are not one of the accused abusers of the system and buying more marijuana than you need for re-sale in the future.  Your medicine will then be provided in a container that sends out a GPS tracking signal, similar to how the drug police track vehicles with drug shipments.  Your 1/8 ounce of marijuana could then always be tracked by the DOR to re-assure the public that everything is very safe with you and your weed.  This expensive endeavor is a scam by the DOR, it will never work, but is just amazing to watch them think that it will.

Will GPS tracking your weed make it any easier on patients?  It would only be assumed that 3rd party medical marijuana software developers could take the technology further with an app for “where’s my weed dude?”. that could help you find your stash if it’s misplaced or confiscated.  With patient information tied to a purchase of weed, eventually the info could be used for social networking, like ‘find people with weed similar to mine’ within a 5 mile area for social medication sessions.  The sky is really the limit, but one thing for sure is that Colorado is about to have the most sophisticated means of getting high in the world with the Colorado Department of Revenue’s “Where’s my Weed at?” program.  The new tracking system is sure to keep the cost of medical marijuana very high and do nothing from preventing black market expansion and abuse of the system for profit.  Regardless, there will always be plenty of cannabis in Colorado for medical, recreational, legal, and street sources.  The Department of Revenue needs to get together with some farmers and learn more about cannabis before deciding how to track it.

Experienced caregivers can tell right from this man’s first words about tracking marijuana “from seed to sale”, that he has no experience in marijuana cultivation.  The USDA once tried to have a department devoted to certifying produce organic in the US, only to give up the effort as organic is impossible to regulate.  Growing cannabis and having the Colorado Department of Revenue be in charge of regulation should prove even more disastrous.  Taking care of one medical marijuana garden is difficult, there is no way that the tax man can find the super gardeners who are needed to inspect marijuana gardens, because that guy is already a pot farmer and will never jump in bed with the DOR.

Inspecting marijuana gardens is a no start by default because no reputable cannabis cultivator is going to let random strangers contaminated with mold and pests from other gardens into his / her garden.  We admire your ambition to be the world’s biggest cannabis garden manager Matt Cook, but tracking a plant from seed to sale just doesn’t work.  Today is the last day of marijuana without regulation in Colorado then it’s back to the good old vigilante days for all the ganja farmers in the high country.  Gardeners work from seed to harvest, and the next step sale is someone else’s job.  Leave the cultivation to the ganja farmer Matt Cook, you worry about the sales with the other pot clowns.  Leave pot be!

From Seed to Harvest