Delete a strain

Permanently delete a strain. This is a HARD delete — the strain row is removed outright (strains have no archived or soft-deleted state), so it immediately disappears from the list and fetch endpoints and its id stops resolving. Deletion cannot be undone; recreating the strain via upsert produces a new strain with a new id.

Deleting a strain never deletes the products classified under it: those products remain intact, but their strain association is cleared, so they read back with a null strain. The strain is also removed from any menus that grouped products by it. No inventory is created, consumed, or released, and nothing is synced to Metrc or BioTrack.

A strain can be deleted at any time, with one exception: when your company runs BioTrack compliance and the strain is attached to any package-tracked product, the request is rejected with a 400 — BioTrack requires every package-tracked product to keep a strain. This check also counts inactive or deleted products, since they could be reactivated later; reassign those products to another strain first. Companies on Metrc or with no compliance system can delete a strain regardless of its product associations. Returns 204 on success, or 404 if no strain with that id exists in your company.

Required permission: settings_permissions_strains.