{"id":23543,"date":"2015-12-15T09:01:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T17:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/state-seeks-marijuana-tracking-program\/"},"modified":"2015-12-15T09:01:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T17:01:11","slug":"state-seeks-marijuana-tracking-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/state-seeks-marijuana-tracking-program\/","title":{"rendered":"State seeks marijuana tracking program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state of Alaska has begun seeking someone to operate its seed-to-sale marijuana tracking system. The system is expected to be the heart of the state\u2019s legalized recreational marijuana industry, and according to state documents, Alaska has a budget of up to $2.5 million to spend.<\/p>\n<p>The state issued a request for proposals on Dec. 7, and companies have until Jan. 6 to submit proposals. Evaluations and demonstrations will follow, with the state making its decision in early February. <\/p>\n<p>According to Ballot Measure 2, approved by voters in 2014, Alaska will begin sales of recreational marijuana in 2016. The seed-to-sale tracking system, as called for by regulation, would prevent black-market marijuana from being sold over the counter.<\/p>\n<p>As implemented in other states, the tracking system assigns a unique barcode or number to every plant. That number follows each flower or bud through the harvesting process and to the moment it is sold.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s request for proposals calls for a three-year contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state of Alaska has begun seeking someone to operate its seed-to-sale marijuana tracking system. The system is expected to be the heart of the state\u2019s legalized recreational marijuana industry, and according to state documents, Alaska has a budget of up to $2.5 million to spend. The state issued a request for proposals on Dec. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-23543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23543"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}