Cannabis Security Gets an Upgrade
Security has been a necessity during both the eras of cannabis prohibition and cannabis commerce, but for very different reasons and with vastly different reliances on technology to achieve security goals. Suffice to say that prohibition-era security concerns were largely primitive and non-technological, serving three major functions: avoid getting busted by police, deter product (or cash) theft, and enhance dealer/seller safety.
Post-prohibition security, in this new epoch of cannabis commerce at the state level, is decidedly technology-driven and is even more important for owners and managers in the emerging annual Las Vegas convention attracts two thousand vendors and over twenty thousand attendees), it would be nearly impossible not to spy the hundreds of technology-centric businesses in attendance focusing on the need for security in one manner or another.
