TONANTZIN BRITO | MARCH 21, 2024
We thank the producers, producers and extra who submitted their feedback final Friday, March 15th, on the Batch Tagging Date & Rule Alignment Public Listening to. The message was clear that, as a united entrance, Oregon's hashish trade is struggling to adapt to ongoing delays in implementing plant batch labeling, which many stakeholders see as a cash seize from OLCC.
As acknowledged final week in Kevin Jacoby's weblog OLCC delays plant batch labeling…once more,
“The rule language they (OLCC) adopted completely final 12 months doesn’t require any adjustments to the Metrc contract – it merely permits licensees to make use of their present stock of plant tags to cowl a batch of 'to 100 particular person crops. What’s now being defined by OLCC is that Metrc wants this extra time to develop a brand new product – a brand new sort of tag for various quantities of crops as much as 100, presumably with a higher worth at licensees. This final excuse is, to place it bluntly, a load of baloney – Metrc at the moment has the flexibility to assign a batch to a single tag. Certainly, that's exactly how bundle tags work.
The underside line is, why is OLCC delaying the implementation of this rule that they’ve had on the books for over a 12 months? The apologies made up to now don’t add up, and there seems to be some dishonesty on the OLCC employees degree to implement the coverage put in place by the OLCC Board of Commissioners final 12 months. Hopefully there's an investigative journalist on the market who is perhaps keen to dig just a little deeper to see how Metrc's affect peddling is so profitable.”
Feedback from the Oregon hashish trade conclude intimately why timing is crucial for an trade dominant in plant well being agriculture, and the labor prices wanted to adapt to the nonetheless delayed promise of plant batch labelling.
To take heed to the recorded public listening to, click on HERE.
