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How Meadow Is Building a Company and Community Around Cannabis
- touchofevil 10y agoThe Meadow team seems to be doing a great job. getMeadow.com is really well done and their move into dispensary inventory management software and a POS system is impressive. I have been following them closely and I was wondering if their move into inventory management might have been due to dispensaries not being that interested in a grubhub style ordering service. I am curious about this because I have been working on a "grubhub for cannabis" site of my own and I have found dispensary interest in this SaaS product to be tepid.
- blackguardx 10y agoI wonder what kind of regulations exist for Meadow. When I opened up a business (not marijuana related) bank account in Colorado, they only had one question: "Is this a marijuana business?"
- azinman2 10y agoI was wondering the same. Because they're a middle man perhaps they can take in cash and deposit it into a normal bank account?
- wavefunction 10y agoIt depends on Federal prosecutors. Considering that concert and event venues were seized under crack-house laws in the early 2000s simply for hosting music events that featured drug use by attendees, actually facilitating drug use seems like not much of a stretch. ps. I am in favor of complete legalization including the right to grow your own and sell, barter or gift your product to adults over the age of 18.
- azinman2 10y agoGood point, although banks are very conservative (with this kind of stuff). My guess is they'll want some kind of assurance from some fed commission to say this is ok or not ok, or some kind of CYA framework to follow.
- Animats 10y agoThe DEA is now looking into moving marijuana off schedule I. That would make it a regular prescription drug, with regular prescriptions, distribution through pharmacies, and insurance coverage. If that happens, the whole "dispensary" business will collapse.
- Archio 10y agoI don't know the legal specifics of this, but is that actually true? It is schedule 1 right now, which means it federally has no medical use, yet there are states that successfully empowered themselves to (1) legalize for recreational use, e.g. CO and (2) legalize for medical use from dispensaries, e.g. CA. How would a reduced federal scheduling level for cannabis also reduce the state's power?
- auntienomen 10y agoIt's very difficult to do clinical research on schedule 1 drugs. You need a DEA license, and FDA approval. Lots of hoop jumping, lots of opportunity for prohibitionists to forbid the research. Moving marijuana to schedule 2 will allow scientists to make honest assessments of its benefits and harms.
- millstone 10y agoIn California (and in Colorado before legalization) dispensary customers are overwhelmingly recreational users, given recommendation letters from "specialists" who issue them with no medical exam. Their "demonstrated medical needs" would never pass muster with a, say, Kaiser doctor. The dispensary business won't collapse because they are not competing with pharmacies. Though it will be fun to watch the insurance companies push back when pot is prescribed for whiplash, colorblindness, and genital herpes.
- theseatoms 10y ago> Though it will be fun to watch the insurance companies push back when pot is prescribed for whiplash, colorblindness, and genital herpes. Luckily, the price will be so low, even after-tax, that you won't need insurance to fund your cannabis consumption.
- 420blazeit 10y ago420 blaze it
- adnam 10y agoI know it's an unpopular view here, but I hope Meadow fails and that the tide of opinion turns against marijuana legalisation and the Big Dope lobby.
- GordonS 10y agoWhy?
- adnam 10y agoThe often peddled argument is that cannabis is a "soft drug" is, according to what I have seen, a complete lie. It is capable of completely and permanently altering a person's personality in negative ways. Also, I would not want my kids using it.
- GordonS 10y ago> It is capable of completely and permanently altering a person's personality in negative ways Yes, it should be used in moderation - like alcohol, which is a more dangerous, legal drug.
- adnam 10y agoPointing out the existence of a worse legal poison is not a very good argument for the legalisation of another one. Perhaps it should not be used at all.
- GordonS 10y agoAnother argument is the incredible damage that drug prohibition has done to our society. Millions of drug users have been criminalised and/or jailed just because they wanted to alter their state of mind. Drugs on the street are often tainted with adulterants. Violent drug cartels have wreaked absolute havoc on entire countries. The war on drugs does not work, so let's take a fresh approach.
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- anonbanker 10y agoThey're selling for twice what we're[0] selling for in Winnipeg. More than twice, if you count for the exchange rate. Marijuana is decriminalized in Canada right now (Allard v. Canada, 2015[1], R. v. Parker, 2000[3]). If you guys were in Canada, I'd be terrified right now. Thankfully, this blue ocean is undisturbed by the ycombinator fish thus far. Post April 21st, when the UN convenes, and Canada/Mexico pull-out/renegotiate three of their treaties, the U.S. might be pulled in as a result, and Obama can quietly brag about Marijuana being legalized under his administration (and he doesn't have to take credit!) 0. http://medicalcannab.is http://medicalcannab.is 1. http://www.canlii.org/en/ca/fct/doc/2016/2016fc236/2016fc236.html?resultIndex=2 http://www.canlii.org/en/ca/fct/doc/2016/2016fc236/2016fc236... 2. http://www.canlii.org/en/on/onca/doc/2000/2000canlii5762/2000canlii5762.html?searchUrlHash=AAAAAQAJbWFyaWh1YW5hAAAAAAE&resultIndex=3 http://www.canlii.org/en/on/onca/doc/2000/2000canlii5762/200... [210]