IBM Corp., one of the bluest of U.S. blue-chip companies, is touting blockchain as the supply-management tool of choice for an unusual industry — cannabis.
The digital ledger could be used to track pot from “seed to sale,” according to the Armonk, New York-based company, which submitted a paper this month to the government of British Columbia. The Western Canadian province was gathering public feedback on how to regulate the industry ahead of legalization of recreational pot nationally.