Cannabis Production Research and Data Sharing: Interview with Daniela Vergara, PhD

Sebastian Krawiec:

I guess, to kind of close, I wanted to kind of offer you to kind of floor to kind of discuss any other kind of upcoming research that you're trying to get published, or stuff that you're working on currently, that you can talk about.

Daniela Vergara:

What we did is that we measured the production of in one facility, the production of photo periods and auto flowers, and how much man hours did it take to take care of those? This is in regard to one facility in New York, an indoor facility. So you cannot honestly extrapolate that into, I don't know, an outdoor facility in Nevada. I don't think that Well, I don't know if there are outdoor facilities in Nevada but in any case, you cannot. So it's very specific.

We did an economic analysis of production and etc. So I think it's important to show this out there, because I also think that there's many cannabis companies, especially cannabis companies, that have been working for a while that already have these numbers, and that know how much they're producing, and man hours and etc., and they have these numbers, but they have it somewhere, right? And they're not going to share them. Because whenever I show these results, it's like, 'well, that is not true, because blah blah', and it's like, 'really, but where are your numbers?' Show me. Show me your data. So ideally, this would incentivize people to to have a conversation and a more open conversation of, what are you doing, how and how can we improve. So that's the paper that I hope to publish.