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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsToke 1: Microsoft moves into Legal Weed bizness
According to 'The Next Web' report that was posted 22 hours agovyesterday ( too late for LBN) - as per the title"Microsoft is getting into legal weed business".
WOW!
Specifically, the article quotes Microsoft that:
The goal of this relationship is to leverage each companys resources to provide State, County, and Municipalities with purpose built solutions for track and trace (seed to sale in the cannabis industry) technology, Kind said in the statement"
The article concludes:
It's one of the most tightly-regulated in the country, its mostly devoid of investment funds and it still resides in a sort of government-created purgatory as states (where its legal) fight against the federal government (where its not).
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Toke 1: Microsoft moves into Legal Weed bizness (Original Post)
laserhaas
Jun 2016
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Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)1. This is mainstreaming not JUST MM, but legalization in general!
THIS is a very good thing!!!!!
On edit: I survived WinME and Vista - they were definitely smoking something else, like crack, then.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)2. Yup...But I heard (long ago) U.S. Gov owns patent on Weed
And that's how the made it legal...long ago
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)3. Patents? I don't need no stinking patents!
It's like they have a *patent* on dandelions... which grow EVERYWHERE (much to my mowing chagrin in the spring ).
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)5. Ha Ha
REP
(21,691 posts)4. Great. Now weed will cost 10x as much and won't work.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)6. Me thinks otherwise
MS just opened the flood gates for investing
As competition meets demand..product quality will vary
As will price
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)7. Wake me up when they get into the legal gun business.
scscholar
(2,902 posts)8. It's still illegal...
so I don't understand why they think they can get away with this. They're ignoring the law yet again.