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Canada is a whole new ballgame for Cannabis startups. Prime Minister Harper announced that legalization is coming in the next 10 years, tops. We have 6 months

Canada is a whole new ballgame for Cannabis startups. Prime Minister Harper announced that legalization is coming in the next 10 years, tops. We have 6 months before the new regulations are in place, which open the floodgates for corporate cannabis providers. We're currently in a cannabis gold rush right now, so I figured this would be a great time to start a Cooperative that courts illegal growers into becoming legal ones, if just to prevent clogging the courts with people trying to produce medicine for sick people. We've gotten a lot of support from Health Canada, too, as it seems that there's a massive contingent within that's unhappy with MMAR (the previous regulations) going away. We haven't even sought outside (public or semi-private) funding yet, because we haven't had to. :) we have a website with a fantastic (imo) domain name, but we're keeping it quiet until we're closer to launch. hoping to pimp it here when it's ready.

loganu 13y ago
Can you shoot me any more info on what you guys are doing?
- aclevernickname 13y ago
  medicalcannab@urssmail.org and I'll happily fill you in.
epa 13y ago
Interesting but I see a lot of liability issues on your behalf if you offer consulting services to people who end up breaking the law for some reason 'based on your advice'. Careful.
- aclevernickname 13y ago
  we're not really venturing into "consulting" per se; more of a franchise sort of setup, where everyone interested in growing ensures their product and growing space meets our internal standards, which meet or (in most cases) exceed the requirements listed in the Controlled Drugs & Substances Act. We're cooperating at every step with Health Canada to keep our product and facilities as safe as possible, in order to deliver directly to customers come April 2014, when the MMAR/MMPR switch flips. While we've met many people looking for a legal loophole to commit crimes, we're only really interested in those people willing to be in harmony with the government's new MMPR program, and are focused on growing medicine for sick people. We understand there's a massive Blue Ocean of legal consumer cannabis product opportunities that will be opening up here in ten years, but weeding out (sorry) the criminal element is of paramount importance to us before even thinking of expanding our scope to cover those markets.

loganu 13y ago

Can you shoot me any more info on what you guys are doing?

aclevernickname 13y ago
medicalcannab@urssmail.org and I'll happily fill you in.

epa 13y ago

Interesting but I see a lot of liability issues on your behalf if you offer consulting services to people who end up breaking the law for some reason 'based on your advice'. Careful.

aclevernickname 13y ago
we're not really venturing into "consulting" per se; more of a franchise sort of setup, where everyone interested in growing ensures their product and growing space meets our internal standards, which meet or (in most cases) exceed the requirements listed in the Controlled Drugs & Substances Act. We're cooperating at every step with Health Canada to keep our product and facilities as safe as possible, in order to deliver directly to customers come April 2014, when the MMAR/MMPR switch flips. While we've met many people looking for a legal loophole to commit crimes, we're only really interested in those people willing to be in harmony with the government's new MMPR program, and are focused on growing medicine for sick people. We understand there's a massive Blue Ocean of legal consumer cannabis product opportunities that will be opening up here in ten years, but weeding out (sorry) the criminal element is of paramount importance to us before even thinking of expanding our scope to cover those markets.