Marijuana Business Magazine November December 2018

the block. “The functionality was carried over from our opioid prescription-tracking venture, and now it’s a standard feature for dispensary point-of-sale systems,” said Moe Afaneh, chief operating officer at BioTrackTHC. • Cova and MJ Freeway’s MJ Platform’s POS systems automatically calculate product equivalencies for retailers.This comes in handy in states that calculate products to a single value. In Colorado, for example, an eighth of flower is equal to 1 gram of concentrate or 100 milligrams of infused products. If a sales associate was required to manually calculate equivalencies, it could lead to error.The Cova and MJ Platform systems make those calculations to ensure customers don’t exceed the state’s 2-ounce daily purchase limit. • IndicaOnline’s POS system noti- fies sales associates when patients meet or exceed their sales limits, and it offers a blacklisting option to retailers. A network blacklist would notify any retailer using IndicaOnline during check-in when a customer tries to make multiple same-day purchases.The Young marijuana plants are outfitted with bar codes as part of California-based OutCo's seed-to-sale compliance strategy. Photo by KC Alfred 82 • Marijuana Business Magazine • November/December 2018