The Barbados cannabis regulator has selected Canadian technology company GrowerIQ to manage the tracking and reporting of all marijuana production on the island nation for the next five years.
The contract was awarded via a global request for proposal process. Terms weren’t disclosed.
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The latest development suggests the eastern Caribbean country is closer than ever to launching its domestic medical cannabis industry.
“(Barbados) shows there is a path forward. It shows that there is a way for jurisdictions to design a framework that can benefit everybody,” Andrew Wilson, CEO of Toronto-based GrowerIQ, told MJBizDaily in a phone interview.
GrowerIQ operates in 14 countries.
In a news release, the CEO of the Barbados Medicinal Cannabis Licensing Authority, Shanika Roberts-Odle, said the software-as-a-service (SaaS) system “will enable our licensees to view and track all their information and activities, improve cultivation management or the cannabis-based products, including its origin,
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