Using blockchain to enable consistency in medical cannabis

MedCity News July 16, 2021
Robert Galarza

If a doctor can confidently prescribe a specific plant-derived treatment to a patient and know that there’s going to be no meaningful change in the chemical composition from batch to batch, that doctor will be more likely to prescribe that treatment.

One of the biggest hurdles that medical cannabis faces in its path towards mainstream acceptance is that it’s incredibly hard to create pharmaceutical-like consistency in the product. This is true of any plant-based therapy, as slight variations in the growth cycle from yield to yield can and do result in changes to the final product. In other words, last year’s harvest is going to be a little different from this year’s harvest, no matter how hard you try to...

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