CO SB279

The Institute of Cannabis Research at Colorado State University - Pueblo must develop marijuana certification technology within 90 days that includes an agent applied to marijuana plants/products and a scanning device to verify legal cultivation, manufacture, or sale.

The technology must use traceable identifiers via distributed ledger technology, be safe for human consumption per Department of Public Health and Environment standards, and be accessible to law enforcement and the Department of Revenue.

After development, the state marijuana licensing authority must determine the technology is effective, and may then promulgate rules requiring licensed marijuana businesses to use it at one or more cultivation, manufacture, wholesale, or retail sale stages.

The state licensing authority may make scanning technology available for purchase by law enforcement agencies and share collected data with law enforcement and the Department of Revenue at no cost.

The gray and black market marijuana enforcement grant program may award grants to law enforcement agencies to purchase the marijuana scanning technology.