Mission
Our mission is to ensure transparency, consistency and integrity throughout the cannabis and hemp supply chains - from the farmer to the consumer. We do this by providing the living set of agriculture standards used to grade, score, communicate and verify the quality of raw cannabis and hemp materials and finished products.
Goals
Our goals are to increase the speed and efficiency of the wholesale commercial trade of cannabis and hemp material and support sustainability for all operators.
We do this by providing the industry the tools that standardize how value is communicated between operators, retailers and consumers through education and promotion of reasonable public health regulations surrounding the production, processing, labeling and distribution of cannabis and hemp based on science, sustainable business and fairness.
PILLARS
01. COMMON LANGUAGE
The ICHS Glossary of Terms, which covers cannabis and hemp industry-specific jargon, is regularly updated to reflect new technologies, processes, products and references.
02. STANDARDS
ICHS maintains and updates the set of living agricultural standards used for the grading and scoring of product quality.
03. EDUCATION
Education starts with the farmer and ends with the consumer. Awareness is created through the implementation, certification and training in the ICHS standards.
04. ADOPTION
Through adoption of ICHS’s standards, material quality is communicated from the producer to the consumer in a consistent, easy to understand format: the 100-point Fair Market Certificate of Grade.
05. INTEGRITY
Utilizing the ICHS standard and utilizing the Fair Market Certification process, third-party grading, quality verification and appraisal companies allow operators throughout the supply chain to build trust and integrity between B2B customers and consumers alike.
“With broad legalization of cannabis on the horizon, operators need a consistent, trusted common language to grade, certify and value material.”