The California legislature has sent a bill to the governor that would change how marijuana plants must be tracked in a way that supporters say will promote environmental sustainability by eliminating the use of single-use plastic tags.
The legislation from Sen. Ben Allen (D) passed both chambers with unanimous votes over recent months, with the Senate advancing it in a final concurrence vote last week.
While the text of the measure doesn’t explicitly discuss the current use of plastic tags under California’s track-and-trace rules, cannabis businesses and industry groups say the transition away from that practice will prevent waste while saving the state millions.
“Existing law requires a unique identifier to be issued for each cannabis plant and to be attached at the base of each plant or as otherwise required by law or regulation,” the legislative summary says. “This bill would instead require the unique identifier to be recorded in a manner as determined by” the Department of Cannabis Control (DCC).
The legislation doesn’t provide specific examples of alternatives to the plastic identifiers that are currently used to track marijuana plants. But if signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), regulators would have discretion to implement ecologically sound
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