Marijuana means big business for Nashville plant tracker

Nashvillian Scott Denholm is executive director of Metrc, a tech business that tracks every cannabis plant in Colorado from seed to sale. With more states considering legalization, the growth opportunities are vast.

For years, Nashvillian Scott Denholm has tracked the travel and sale of fruits and vegetables, packages of pharmaceuticals, even the parts of race cars. Now he is focused on tracking a plant that has captured the attention of millions of Americans: cannabis.

In a career twist that he never could have predicted, Denholm is executive director of a division within a small Florida-based tracking company, Franwell, that keeps tabs on every marijuana plant in Colorado from seed to sale. Franwell's surveillance technology helps regulators ensure the plants do not end up in other states or fuel an illicit trade. In that way, Denholm and his colleagues have helped pave the way for further legalization, providing a system that...

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