tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907847241277109182024-03-05T17:47:05.297-05:00Cash Cow CannabisWe are a website about the legal cannabis industry. We conduct interviews and company reviews.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1590784724127710918.post-27024836096740397572019-01-08T23:57:00.001-05:002019-01-10T22:47:17.375-05:00Leafly: An Entrepreneurs source for cannabis information<h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">What I love about Leafly is how any one just getting into the cannabis industry can jump right by using this website alone. Lets say I wanted to start a store that specialized in edibles. The first thing I'd search for is articles on the subject matter then boom I got what I need. I honestly had no idea that there was a cannabis recipe for Quinoa salad!<a name='more'></a></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Or lets say I want to open up a cannabis dispensary with a bunch of specific strains. For example I can look for strains that focus on pain relief. From my search you can see that 1210 results pop up. This is more than enough to get me started.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">New entrepreneurs looking to jump into this industry should definitely have Leafly in their arsenal of resources. I can see cannabis dispensaries using this site a lot and from what I gather it's rich in strain information. Since its in its infancy it still needs time for the data to grow but over time I can see Leafly as the go to site for cannabis start ups.<br /><br />Website: <a href="http://www.leafly.com/">http://www.leafly.com/</a><br /><br />Contact: <a href="http://www.leafly.com/company/contact">http://www.leafly.com/company/contact</a></span></h3>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1590784724127710918.post-28824023923740271622019-01-08T23:52:00.003-05:002019-01-10T22:38:49.503-05:00WikiLeaf: Giving Consumers The Power To Set Their Own Marijuana Prices<div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-26c74e1555b14d89de71" style="box-shadow: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0) 0px 0px 0px 1px inset; clear: none; height: auto; outline: none; padding: 17px; position: relative; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">It would come as no surprise that the price of marijuana in the US can vary from state to state. As any new industry will show, prices can be high (pun intended) at first and start to decrease over time. In walks Wikileaf, founded by Dan Nelson, serial entrepreneur, who thought of the idea back in 2013. With the help of a generous developer they set the framework for Wikileaf by collecting marijuana prices and dispensary location data then allowing consumers to search based on that criteria. Essentially, Wikileaf will find the closest dispensary in your prices range. Putting that kind of power in the hands of the consumer will spark competitive pricing.</span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br />I recently did an Interview with Dan to find out more about how it all came to be.<br /> Getting Attention<br /><br />CCC: How did you get the media attention?<br /><br />DAN: I emailed a writer at TechCrunch and Elite daily who agreed to do a story on my company and the day after it was published a wave of press came in. It also lead to being discovered by a company from New York who offered funding.<br /> Funding Wikileaf<br /><br />CCC: In your interview with Nextshark.com you mentioned being approached about becoming a publicly traded penny stock, can you expand a little more on why you didn't want to go in that direction? wouldn't it have helped you grow faster?<br /><br />DAN: It wasn't really an official offering to go public it was more of a reverse merger which is another way to become publicly traded without resorting to an initial public offering. I would essentially merge with a company that is already being traded and part of a bigger portfolio. I wasn't interested in that.<br /><br />CCC: Did you seek out investors?<br /><br />DAN: Well, after I was mentioned in TechCrunch and Elite daily I was approached by a New York company who offered us funding. After that I received interest from more private investors.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />“For now we are allowing dispensaries list for free which is a big deal because there are websites out there at charging $300-$400 to list their menus.”<br /> <br /><br /><br /> Obstacles<br /><br />CCC: What are the obstacles you are you facing currently<br /><br />DAN: The biggest obstacle is advertising since it’s not allowed. Facebook and Twitter don’t allow for cannabis themed advertising so only organic growth can be done which is way too slow. Even Google ads disappear after it shows up. The second obstacle is the app store which doesn't allow for dispensary pricing to be displayed so instead apps will direct clients to their main site and deteriorates the user experience.<br /> Monetizing<br /><br />CCC: How are you going to monetize?<br /><br />DAN: For now we are allowing dispensaries list for free which is a big deal because there are websites out there at charging $300-$400 to list their menus. However in 2016 we will be changing our pricing model in order to monetize. We’ll soon be reaching 3000 visits a day which is more incentive for dispensaries to sign up before year end.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />“Marijuana prices will absolutely go down.”<br /> <br /><br /><br /> Perspective and Outlook<br /><br />CCC: What would you have done differently if you had to do it all over again.<br /><br />DAN: I wouldn't do much differently. Maybe gather the dispensary data faster. I feel like I've made the right choices but that doesn't mean six months from now I could look back and say to myself “that was a mistake”. We are going to be adding more features to the site as it grows so there will be more choices made.<br /><br />CCC: What are you views on Marijuana prices in the future<br /><br />DAN: Marijuana prices will absolutely go down. Originally medical marijuana was supplied by a handful of sources at steep prices but over time more suppliers showed up and prices went down. The big obstacle now is recreational marijuana prices because they are so high and it’s only a matter of time for laws to change and more suppliers to show up.<br /><br />In the next few years we'll see the dominoes fall and states start to relax their laws leading up to federal legalization of marijuana. One thing is for sure, Dan is not waiting around to add more features to his arsenal he's already got a head start and is prepared for when the light turns green.<br /><br />Website: <a href="http://www.wikileaf.com/">http:/www.wikileaf.com</a><br /><br />Contact: <a href="http://www.wikileaf.com/contact-us/">http://www.wikileaf.com/contact-us/</a></span></h3>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1590784724127710918.post-45014610551376973442019-01-08T23:51:00.001-05:002019-01-10T22:39:54.735-05:00Plant Life App: Keeping Up With Marijuana Strains<div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-47367a0a3fe3a71dce09" style="box-shadow: rgba(128, 128, 128, 0) 0px 0px 0px 1px inset; clear: none; height: auto; outline: none; padding: 17px; position: relative; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Every marijuana strain has a different effect on the body, some can make you sleepy while others can exaggerate your senses. What plant life does is allow you journalize these variations and favorite the ones you like the most.<br /> <br /><br />I recently did an interview with the founders of Plant Life Lee and Kesba. I dug a little deeper into how Plant Life came to be.<br /> What Sparked This Idea?<br /><br />CCC: When I first contacted you, you mentioned that this was a passion project. What exactly sparked this idea for your app?<br /><br />Lee and Kesba: At first we were building this for ourselves and we really feel that exploring the individual experience is important since there are so many marijuana strains out there. With our app you can now journalize these feelings. The other issue that most apps store your personal data and use it for other purposes. However, our app only stores data on your phone, so it will be kept private.<br /> Future Of Plant Life<br /><br />CCC: What are the next steps for the Plant Life app?<br /> <br /><br />Lee and Kesba: We are constantly adding new features to the app and the next step for us to create a web based version so that we can reach a wider audience.<br /> Obstacles<br /><br />CCC: Can you describe what obstacles you encountered while this was in development?<br /> <br /><br />Lee and Kesba: Our biggest obstacle has been figuring out an effective, user friendly way to review a strain. We also want to connect our users together in some way so the data can be shared, but we are still figuring out how that should work.<br /> Competitors<br /><br />CCC: What about competition?<br /> <br /><br />Lee and Kesba: There aren't too many apps out there that compare to this so competition is pretty low.<br /> Monetizing<br /><br />CCC: How do you plan on monetizing this app?<br /> <br /><br />Lee and Kesba: Monetizing is definitely in our future but for now we are focusing on the user experience. We want people be more aware of which marijuana strains help the most.<br /> Costs<br /><br />CCC: How much were start up costs? did you get 3rd party help?<br /> <br /><br />Lee and Kesba: There only real cost to us is our time. We develop the app personally and will continue to do so this really keeps costs low.<br /> Perspective and Outlook for Marijuana Strains<br /><br />CCC: I like to end off my interviews by asking what you think the future of cannabis looks like. In this instance what is your view on the future of marijuana strains? Will there be a plateau?<br /> <br /><br />Lee and Kesba: I don’t think cannabis strains will plateau instead I think it will continue to grow and evolve. There is a bright future for cannabis strains. Cannabis is a versatile plant which can be manipulated for various uses. For example growers can harvest cannabis plants that features desired traits like more CBD than THC to reduce the psychoactive “high”. Strains with more CBD are desired because they can help treat people who suffer from various ailments.<br /> <br /><br /> As more states legalize cannabis in some form medical/recreational there will be more growers who will specialize i.e. a grower who only grows high CBD plants. When dealing with plant biology the possibilities are limitless.<br /> <br /><br />Website: <a href="http://plantlife.io/">www.plantlife.io</a><br /><br />Contact: kesba@kezzi.co</span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Even though the cannabis industry is gaining speed the government still seems to drag it's feet. In <a href="http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/dhp-mps/marihuana/info/bulletin-eng.php">Canada</a> there are strict rules against advertising which makes sense since this is still considered a drug in the eyes of the law. In the U.S. there are states that put harsh rules on advertising as well. Look at <a href="http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2013a/csl.nsf/billcontainers/807A035CD583C95E87257B1F005CDB59/$FILE/1317_01.pdf">Colorado</a> for instance. There's a section in their legislation that literally says "LIMITATIONS ON ADVERTISING AND DISPLAY OF RETAIL 6 MARIJUANA AND RETAIL MARIJUANA PRODUCTS" Regardless of the difficulty it won't stop cannabis entrepreneurs from marketing their business.<a name='more'></a></span></h3>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Here are 9 tips for marketing your cannabis business.</span><br /> <br /><br /><ol>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;">Submit your business name to apps and websites like <a href="http://www.wikileaf.com/">WIKILEAF</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;">Write an article about your product and ask to have it published on other sites/blogs</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;">Support your community on behalf of your business. Volunteer and wear a shirt with your logo on it</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;">Donate to charity on behalf of your business. Your name will show up on their donation page</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;">Do an interview on a podcast</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;">Network with other entrepreneurs to spread your Business name. Join a meet up and talk about your business goals</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;">Make your business active on social media. Talk through your business's name. Have an opinion about your industry and if your product/service can help some one, offer to help them via Facebook, twitter, Instagram.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;">Make an instructional video of how your product/service works. Don't make it an ad make it a lesson.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;">Sponsor an event. If your are past the boot strapping phase then you can can give money to a private event and have a big banner displayed of your business.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-weight: normal;">Help other entrepreneurs by talking about how great their product/service is. In turn they will do the same.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;">Give away merchandise pens/pipes with your logo on it.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;">Public speaking events. If you are a pro in your industry offer to share your knowledge with public speaking.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;">Have your business Host meet ups to connect entrepreneurs in your industry. You will be known as an authority in your industry since you know so many entrepreneurs.</span></li>
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Here are some great ideas on how to market your cannabis Business. </div>
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Submit your business name to apps and websites like <a href="http://www.wikileaf.com/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;"><strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">WIKILEAF</strong> </a>or <strong style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/plant-life-rate-cannabis-strains/id693830962?mt=8" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">PLANTLIFE</a>...</strong></div>
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Write an article about your product and ask to have it published on other sites/blogs</div>
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Support your community on behalf of your business. Volunteer and wear a shirt with your logo on it</div>
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Donate to charity on behalf of your business. Your name will show up on their donation page</div>
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Do an interview on a podcast</div>
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Network with other entrepreneurs to spread your Business name. Join a meet up and talk about your business goals</div>
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Help other entrepreneurs by talking about how great their product/service is. In turn they will do the same.</div>
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Make your business active on social media. Talk through your business's name. Have an opinion about your industry and if your product/service can help some one, offer to help them via Facebook, twitter, Instagram.</div>
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Make an instructional video of how your product/service works. Don't make it an ad make it a lesson.</div>
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Sponsor an event. If your are past the boot strapping phase then you can can give money to a private event and have a big banner displayed of your business.</div>
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Give away merchandise pens/pipes with your logo on it.</div>
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Public speaking events. If you are a pro in your industry offer to share your knowledge with public speaking.</div>
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Have your business Host meet ups to connect entrepreneurs in your industry. You will be known as an authority in your industry since you know so many entrepreneurs.</div>
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What does it take for one to become a courier in the cannabis business in New Mexico? Judging by the below guide it seems that there a lot of documents however not at all complex. Make sure to always see a lawyer and do you own due diligence before any en-devour. </div>
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Before you do anything review the state website for more details: <a href="http://164.64.110.239/nmac/parts/title07/07.034.0004.htm" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">LICENSING REQUIREMENTS FOR PRODUCERS, COURIERS, MANUFACTURERS AND LABORATORIES</a></div>
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Basic marijuana business revolves around selling cannabis and growing cannabis which is all fine and good. However, there are others creating awesome businesses and capitalizing on the cannabis trend. The following list is part 1 in our series of creative business ideas in the cannabis industry that we will be discussing. So lets get started: </div>
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This fun idea follows the same format as the painting and cocktails trend. Already, one business has popped up called <a href="http://www.puffpassandpaint.com/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">Puff Pass & Paint</a>. It allows art lovers and stoners to meet up and paint to their hearts content. What better way to bring out your creative side.</div>
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The combination of Yoga and cannabis seems like a natural pairing. People who have spear headed this movement have coined the term Ganja Yoga. One such person popularizing this idea is <a href="http://deedussault.com/private-sessions-with-dee/ganja-yoga/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">Dee Dussault</a>. Her passion for yoga crossed with cannabis allows users to experience trippy sessions filled with pain relief and inner peace. </div>
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A continuation of our previous blog post <a href="http://www.cashcowcannabis.com/blog/creative-cannabis-business-ideas-1" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">Creative Cannabis Business ideas (part 1)</a>. We explore new creative cannabiz ideas. I changed the word cannabis business to cannabiz to make things less tongue twisty. Any way, I've found more businesses that are cannabis focused and they seem just as fun to do as the first post. I remember listening to a podcast where the interviewee said "just start a business and put cannabis in front of it". That stuck with me and from my internet research I've been seeing more and more of this. </div>
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This idea is for the aspiring chef that has combined their passion with cannabis and cooking. This can also be used as a supplement to your cooking you tube videos. So what are you waiting for? <span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Create your eBook, throw it up on amazon and start marketing the hell out of it! </span><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Below are a couple of examples of cannabis cookbooks which you can buy and see how they do it. Buy them today!</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Note: I just thought of a great name for an ebook. Make a cannabis cookie recipe eBook and call it Cannabis Cook eBook! (a.k.a Cannabis Cookie Book). Million dollar idea right there. Unless of course some one has already thought of it, either way pretty awesome name.</span></div>
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This business idea was a big surprise to me but after looking at a few companies you can see that this is a major necessity. Legal cannabis is only available in certain states like Colorado and Washington making them a popular tourist attraction for out of town enthusiasts. An example I found was High Country Cannabis Tours. They offer walking tours, luxury tours and even industry tours for the aspiring cannabis entrepreneur. </div>
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These products come with <a href="https://www.avma.org/news/javmanews/pages/130615a.aspx" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">some controversy</a> but new studies are coming out showing that cannabis actually helps animals for all kind of ailments. One example is Treat-Ibles (mentioned below) contain no THC - just non-psychoactive cannabidiol (CBD). Another example is Canna-biscuits from <a href="https://canna-pet.com/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">www.canna-pet.com</a> which states that their product is great for easing travel, re-homing, grooming, reducing stress during thunderstorms and fireworks, and separation stress.</div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Turkey-Cranberry-hemp-based-Canna-Biscuits/dp/B00UB06WF6?SubscriptionId=0ENGV10E9K9QDNSJ5C82&tag=mjshq-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00UB06WF6" style="color: #007fff; display: block; line-height: 0; text-decoration-line: none; width: 670px;" target="new"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jzELP3gUL.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 670px;" /></a></div>
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<a class="product-title title" href="http://www.amazon.com/Turkey-Cranberry-hemp-based-Canna-Biscuits/dp/B00UB06WF6?SubscriptionId=0ENGV10E9K9QDNSJ5C82&tag=mjshq-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00UB06WF6" style="color: #007fff; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1em; margin: 1em 0px 0.2em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="new">Turkey Cranberry CBD hemp based Canna-Biscuits for dogs</a><div class="product-price price" style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">
<span class="list-price">$16.49</span></div>
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Canna-Pet</div>
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One business trend that is hot right now is marijuana dispensary locators. With the increased cannabis tourism happening around the U.S. it's no wonder these services are getting popular. We chose these from a list of many sites and were measured by their site design and user friendliness.<br />
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1. <a href="http://www.wikileaf.com/" style="color: #e6a83d; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Wikileaf</a> </h2>
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<a href="http://www.wikileaf.com/" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1547005853202_63" style="color: #007fff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.wikileaf.com/" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1547005853202_63" style="color: #007fff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="wikileaf front page" class="thumb-image loaded" data-image-dimensions="1156x498" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-image-id="556e53d6e4b0335ea4ad3e6c" data-image-resolution="750w" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53191a30e4b01676f17434b8/t/556e53d6e4b0335ea4ad3e6c/1433293783442/wikileaf+front+page" data-load="false" data-position-mode="standard" data-src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53191a30e4b01676f17434b8/t/556e53d6e4b0335ea4ad3e6c/1433293783442/wikileaf+front+page" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53191a30e4b01676f17434b8/t/556e53d6e4b0335ea4ad3e6c/1433293783442/wikileaf+front+page?format=750w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: 288.625px; left: -0.421875px; max-width: none; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 670.844px;" /></a></div>
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2. <a href="https://www.leafly.com/finder" style="color: #e6a83d; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">Leafly</a></h2>
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<a href="https://www.leafly.com/finder" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1547005853202_88" style="color: #007fff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="leafly" class="thumb-image loaded" data-image-dimensions="1055x496" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-image-id="556e546fe4b0bd00593a26c5" data-image-resolution="750w" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53191a30e4b01676f17434b8/t/556e546fe4b0bd00593a26c5/1433293936523/leafly" data-load="false" data-src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53191a30e4b01676f17434b8/t/556e546fe4b0bd00593a26c5/1433293936523/leafly" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53191a30e4b01676f17434b8/t/556e546fe4b0bd00593a26c5/1433293936523/leafly?format=750w" style="border: 0px; display: block; left: 0px; max-width: none; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 670px;" /></a></div>
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3. <a href="https://weedmaps.com/" style="color: #e6a83d; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Weedmaps</a></h2>
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<a href="https://weedmaps.com/" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1547005853202_105" style="color: #007fff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"></a><br />
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<a href="https://weedmaps.com/" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1547005853202_105" style="color: #007fff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="weedmaps" class="thumb-image loaded" data-image-dimensions="1153x558" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-image-id="556e5aa2e4b099eddb4b408b" data-image-resolution="750w" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53191a30e4b01676f17434b8/t/556e5aa2e4b099eddb4b408b/1433295525614/weedmaps" data-load="false" data-position-mode="standard" data-src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53191a30e4b01676f17434b8/t/556e5aa2e4b099eddb4b408b/1433295525614/weedmaps" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53191a30e4b01676f17434b8/t/556e5aa2e4b099eddb4b408b/1433295525614/weedmaps?format=750w" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: 324.469px; left: 0px; max-width: none; position: absolute; top: -0.109375px; vertical-align: middle; width: 670px;" /></a></div>
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4. <a href="http://www.thcfinder.com/" style="color: #e6a83d; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">THC FINDER</a></h2>
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<a href="http://www.thcfinder.com/" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1547005853202_123" style="color: #007fff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.thcfinder.com/" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1547005853202_123" style="color: #007fff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="THC Finder" class="thumb-image loaded" data-image-dimensions="1161x512" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-image-id="556e59cde4b0bbf8606d49f3" data-image-resolution="750w" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53191a30e4b01676f17434b8/t/556e59cde4b0bbf8606d49f3/1433295313263/THC+Finder" data-load="false" data-src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53191a30e4b01676f17434b8/t/556e59cde4b0bbf8606d49f3/1433295313263/THC+Finder" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53191a30e4b01676f17434b8/t/556e59cde4b0bbf8606d49f3/1433295313263/THC+Finder?format=750w" style="border: 0px; display: block; left: 0px; max-width: none; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 670px;" /></a></div>
<a href="http://www.thcfinder.com/" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1547005853202_123" style="color: #007fff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">
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5. <a href="https://wheresweed.com/" style="color: #e6a83d; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Where's Weed</a></h2>
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<a href="https://wheresweed.com/" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1547005853202_140" style="color: #007fff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"></a><br />
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<a href="https://wheresweed.com/" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1547005853202_140" style="color: #007fff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="https://wheresweed.com/" class="thumb-image loaded" data-image-dimensions="1155x567" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" data-image-id="556e5bb3e4b0677012bb51d9" data-image-resolution="750w" data-image="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53191a30e4b01676f17434b8/t/556e5bb3e4b0677012bb51d9/1433295799078/https%3A%2F%2Fwheresweed.com%2F" data-load="false" data-src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53191a30e4b01676f17434b8/t/556e5bb3e4b0677012bb51d9/1433295799078/https%3A%2F%2Fwheresweed.com%2F" data-type="image" src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53191a30e4b01676f17434b8/t/556e5bb3e4b0677012bb51d9/1433295799078/https%3A%2F%2Fwheresweed.com%2F?format=750w" style="border: 0px; display: block; left: 0px; max-width: none; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 670px;" /></a></div>
<a href="https://wheresweed.com/" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1547005853202_140" style="color: #007fff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><i>DISCLAIMER: The professionals and companies described are not associated or affiliated with Cash Cow Cannabis, and they may not endorse Cash Cow Cannabis or the information provided. The names of other companies, products and services are the property of their respective owners.</i></span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">For almost 15 years medical marijuana patients had access to dry cannabis leaf but not legally permitted to medicate in any other way. With medical marijuana restrictions finally lifted, patients across Canada are rejoicing.</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">What does this mean for Canada’s medical cannabis culture? As soon as Health Canada adds edibles to their medical licensing program (which hopefully happens soon), cannabis oil production is going to see a huge boom in business. </span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Just ask Brandon Krenzler, marketing director of Portland, Oregon’s Sirius Extracts oil extraction company who says “<a href="http://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2015/01/12/is-cannabis-extraction-the-future-of-a-multi-billion-dollar-industry/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">the future of the extract market is the future of this industry.</a>” Cannabis oil is in demand, and it is now going to be up to Canadian oil producers to meet this with a steady supply.</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">David Posner, the CEO of Nutritional High and Canada’s only company currently working in the edibles market, says “<a href="http://www.stockhouse.com/news/newswire/2015/06/11/medical-marijuana-update-nutritional-high-first-to-embrace-canada-s-edible-rush" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">Once edibles open up, we’d be ready to get involved, either as a producer or as a partner for companies looking to produce.</a>” Many companies already have their eye on the market and with Canada’s restraints on medical marijuana policy lifted, Posner won’t have much trouble finding people to partner up with.</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">No more restrictions not only means better medicine, but a boom in business that will seriously stimulate Canada’s economy. So to all those who were against lifting these ridiculous laws? Put that in your pipe and smoke it.</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">If you would have told a bunch of stoners a decade ago that you’d soon be able to buy weed legally (in a “pot shop” no less), they probably would’ve just laughed in your face and said you were high.</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Fast forward to 2015. It seems like everyone in Colorado’s got the giggles (weed will do that) and there’s no shortage of these shops that have made Colorado go “up in smoke.” Cheech and Chong are proud.</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Pull up to any dispensary in Colorado and you’re bound to see an abundance of cars with out of state plates. People from out of state are flocking to colorful Colorado by the busload (yes tour buses even stop at dispensaries now) and marijuana tourism is big business.</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">It seems like everyone’s jumping on the legal weed bandwagon, and who wouldn’t want to? Pot loving loyalists worldwide have been waiting for the day herb would actually be legal, and that glorious day is here. With literally hundreds of dispensaries to choose from, Colorado’s definitely looking out for its red-eyed locals and tourists alike.</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">The hardest thing about all this legal weed? Finding the best dispensary. It’s not as easy as you might think, although an incredibly fun task.</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">The world of weed has stepped it up a notch and dispensaries have unquestionably followed suit. While there are plenty of places to choose from, the following dispensary is on their game and indubitably doing it right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Lower downtown Denver, affectionately known as LoDo is where it’s at. Full of renovated old buildings turned awesome art galleries, hip restaurants, classic coffee shops, sports bars and pubs, LoDo is seriously the place to be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">It just also happens to be home to <a href="http://lodowellnesscenter.com/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">LoDo Wellness Center</a>, a retail and medical dispensary in the heart of it all. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">They’ve been around since 2009 and know a thing two about good ganja. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Getting there’s easy, and wi</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">th all the things to do around the area</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> you might never want to leave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Before you get too excited on all the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">stony</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> things to do after a trip to </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">LoDo</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Wellness, you shoul</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">d prepare to get very excited about</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> what y</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">ou’ll find inside. While the strains they’ve got</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> on hand will vary from day to day, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">they definitely keep a stock of some of the best weed you can find. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">They rotate 19 potent, super </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">stony</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> strains on a regular basis and if you’re not into smoking your sensi, they’ve got a pr</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">etty decent variety of edibles, drinks, and tinctures. Just watch out for the Cheba Chews. They’ll getcha every time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">While I’m totally a fan of both indicas and sativas depending on my mood, when I’m out in Denver I want something that’s going to put me in a headspace to go out and explore. Enter Durban Poison, one of the best daytime sativa strains I’ve seriously ever had. It’s apparently a popular strain at LoDo Wellness and was awesome for walking over to the Museum of Contemporary Art. Let’s say that </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">my experience was “heightened” to say the least.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Wyncoop Brewery is practically a stone’s throw away from LoDo Wellness and offers some of Colorado’</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">s best craft brew around</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">If beer’s not your thing, the Common Ground Coffee shop (where I stopped on my way to MCA) is an awesome little indie coffee shop that’s cool and cozy, has free Wi-Fi, and plenty of board games to occupy your </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">marijuana mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Planning on stayin</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">g in Denver for a night? There are plenty of hotels in the area and a place to fit whatever your budget might be. For breakfast in the am head to Snooze, located just three blocks away from </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">LoDo</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Wellness Center. Nothing satisfies a good wake and bake like “Peanut Butter and Jelly Pancakes.”</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Everyone you know is on Facebook, and your grandma is undoubtedly stalking your page. She’s probably the last one you want to see pictures of you puffing that Purple Haze or just how well you did with growing your own stash. You probably don’t want your boss to see those either…or anyone else for that matter, especially if you live somewhere where weed isn’t legal.</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">In step the new face of social media, where posting pictures of you smoking chronic and updating your status to “Totally Blazed” is not only acceptable, but encouraged. Cannabis social media sites are the new Facebook for people who are 420 friendly and offer a “safe” place for you to share your weed life.</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">If you’ve got an iPhone, you can sign up to “<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Duby</strong>” and semi-anonymously share everything you ever wanted to about your love affair with Mary Jane. If you don’t have an iPhone, you can’t sign up for this one but you can follow them on Instagram or scroll down through a bunch of pictures if you’ve got nothing better to do. Think young girls in tank-tops and panties, a few nice looking nugs, and people getting blazed.</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Maybe you’re looking for something a little more like Facebook, someplace where you can share your entire life and publicly proclaim your special relationship with pot? <strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">WeedLife</strong> will let you do this with ease. You can post pictures, update your status, and find pot loving people worldwide that share your passion for this sacred plant. They’ve also done your homework and have a link that will take you to a ton of different weed sites, which is cool if you don’t want to spend hours searching on Google for something that catches your weed fancy. And while they’ve got pages for different events and groups, I found there were only a few events posted and that different groups only had a few members without much interaction. So while definitely good, especially if you don’t have a smartphone, it seems like it could be much better which will hopefully happen as more and more people jump on board.</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Out of all the social media sites where cannabis is king I found <strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">KushCommon</strong> to be my favorite. It’s kind of got a mix of everything. Pictures of good looking nugs, a virtual shop where you can buy clothing, accessories, some cute jewelry, and even cat toys for your feisty feline friends. A lot of those crazy cat ladies are also totally crazy about cannabis, you know. You can find good links to cultivation tips, getting into the legal business side of things, or just hang out and find new pot loving friends from around the world. You can even buy your cannabis right online from some of the many users that are selling their stash, although in my eyes this is definitely more than a little sketchy. Instead of “what’s on your mind?” you’re asked “what’s in your bowl?” when you go to post an update. Great for all of us that want to share, but don’t want to get busted on Facebook by snooping parents or 1,000 friends that might not share our love for the green goddess.</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Not everyone wants to post everything they do on Facebook or Twitter, especially if a lot of what they do has something to do with smoking herb. There’s definitely an advantage to these social media sites dedicated to sensi. They offer a place to share your love of weed without being judged or condemned by those that haven’t yet seen the light. You don’t have to worry about breaking your grandma’s heart because she now knows you smoke the wacky tabacky, and you don’t have to stress about getting fired from your job because you posted a picture of you with a blunt in your hand. They’re also a great place to learn new information and keep yourself updated on what’s really going on in ever-changing, increasingly popular world of weed. </span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Summit County is a ski and snowboard stoner sanctuary. Home to resorts like Breckenridge, Keystone, and Copper Mountain the area is one of the most popular winter resort destinations </span><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">and</em><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"> home to a bunch of crazy cool locals.</span><br />
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">There are quite a few dispensaries throughout these high mountain towns, but <a href="http://www.highcountryhealing.com/new/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">High Country Healing</a> in Silverthorne is by far the best. It’s been featured in High Times seven times, produces some of the best strains you can find, and is located within minutes of five different ski resorts.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_17_2_5_1435888420906_4405" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">High Country Healing loves their weed, and it definitely shows. They have seriously awesome customer service, are super kind, and weed that’ll knock you on your ass. It’s at 9,600 feet and maybe it has something to do with the altitude, but I swear I got more baked than usual.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_17_2_5_1435888420906_5085" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">They’ve got almost 50 different strains, pre-rolled joints, edibles, tinctures and topicals. Apparently these mountain peeps know how to do things right. It would be really easy to go a bit overboard when you’re there, and all I can say is prepare to stay for a while. The selections of goodies they have is overwhelming and one of the best I’ve seen anywhere in Colorado period.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_17_2_5_1435888420906_5088" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">When you leave High Country Healing (which you might not want to do) Summit County is literally a ginormous playground. Whether you’re there in the winter or summer it’s amazing and breathtakingly beautiful. It’s got some of the best skiing and riding in the world, and even though cannabis technically isn’t legal on the slopes, you know the locals have been puffin’ in those trees for years.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_17_2_5_1435888420906_5090" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Take a bike ride around Lake Dillon in the summer, rent a kayak, go cool off and watch a movie at the Stardust Cinema, grab a beer at the Dillon Dam Brewery or get your retail therapy on at the Silverthorne Outlet Center. There’s a free bus called the Summit Stage that will take you anywhere you want to go, ski resorts included, which is particularly awesome in the winter months if you’re not used to driving in the snow. </span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">So if you’re skipping the city and headed straight to the slopes, High Country Healing in Silverthorne has got you covered on all your cannabis needs. Don’t forget to smoke safely and remember that you are at over 9,000 feet sea level. Trust me, you </span><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">will </em><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">feel that much higher.</span></div>
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Much of the emerging technology in the cannabis market is about connecting people in a culture that is still a little afraid to be publicly social. Besides running his company <a href="http://www.linklabs.com.br/actionsfeed.html">Link Labs</a>, which operates other platforms and verticals in his native land of Brazil, Mr Perroud is determined to take the emerging U.S. markets by storm with <a href="http://www.weedup.io/index.html#home">WEEDUP</a>, a technology which allows businesses like dispensaries and head shops to connect with their clients and offer compelling content to keep them engaged. He’s pretty revolutionary, as you’ll see. His background in Cannabusiness dates way back to the first head shop in Brazil, and now it is his dream to move to Colorado and merge technology with the cannabis community.<br />
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Mr. Perroud and I connected on Skype for a conversation about <a href="http://www.weedup.io/index.html#home">WEEDUP </a>and the future of technology in Emerging Cannabis Markets. <br />
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CCC: So, Mr. Perroud. I just tried the demo of Weedups iBeacon wallet and started a little campaign for myself using <a href="http://www.passs.com.br/">Pass Suite</a>. Walk me through it. What is the iBeacon wallet and what did I just do?<br />
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Andre: iBeacon is the best solution to drive traffic to a dispensary. If a person has the pass installed on their phone they'll receive a notification when they're close to a dispensary. It's a direct line to the customer. It’s cool because clients don’t have to install any apps, just the pass, and you can distribute notifications through Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Essentially you are sending them coupons, and they can download the it to their phone. With iBeacon dispensaries can trigger the messages even while clients are in the store. They can be notified by stating, “We carry AK-47 the strongest bud in the galaxy!”<br />
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“It’s two platforms, correct. The iBeacon platform and then another service that we do called ActionsFeed.” <br />
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CCC: And you’re streamlining and coordinating all the social media connections for the business?<br />
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Andre: It’s two platforms, correct. The iBeacon platform and then another service that we do called ActionsFeed. We collect all the images, video, gifs and put them in the same feed on our dashboard. You can approve and moderate all the interactions and display whatever you want on your website, or your mobile site and you can re-direct customers to the checkout page and process payments. It is cool because the customer can find the Instagram post they saw on your web site. We merge the right images with the right links, then you add buttons “I want”, “I want now!” or “I wanna buy!”. And you can display only the best content around your brand inside the dispensary on a monitor from the images and video we collect, and use the TV for marketing.<br />
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CCC: So where is WeedUp based, and why did you choose to base it there?<br />
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Andre: I want to move to Colorado and work with dispensaries. It’s difficult for me because we just started, so right now we are based in Brazil. If I can choose one place to live and work, it would be California or Colorado.<br />
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“With iBeacon dispensaries can trigger the messages even while clients are in the store.” <br />
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CCC: What specific businesses are you targeting with WeedUp? Who do you want your clients to be, and are you only operating in the U.S. market?<br />
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Andre: Yes, it’s only U.S. market, because in Brazil I have a company Link Labs, we operate other verticals, which involves things other than WeedUp. If we had some brand in Brazil, like a head shop or smoking accessories, we use Link Labs. WeedUp is for the Cannabis industry in the U.S. and only dispensaries for now. We have plans to expand to verticals for all the cannabusinesses, like head shops, weed stores and T-shirts, because the best solution, the social hub solution, is where we can use our verticals.<br />
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CCC: So it can be adjusted or modified to serve other markets besides dispensary storefronts?<br />
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Andre: Yes. When I was at the last Cannabis Cup in Denver. I went to the dispensaries and I saw they have the TV, the website, but the content and the digital experience is not good. When you go to the store it is so cool because you have some beautiful people talking with you and working in the dispensary but there is lots to expand on online like for delivery and apps. Leafly and WeedMaps are cool but you can’t push a button and buy weed. We have an app here in Brazil, just push for pizza and we want to update that for cannabis, like push for weed.<br />
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Andre: Yea, like on a watch you just have one button, you have your favorite weed and your favorite dispensary and you know what type you want to buy. So you just have to press the button on the watch and with the app you can switch dispensaries and switch strains and I think this is going to be huge. I want to simplify it so you find the good weed and you’re buying with just one tap.<br />
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CCC: I do agree, that people working in dispensaries do seem very happy to be doing what they are doing. But you think the experience at a dispensary can be made better by adding the digital content? You have the happy people and the digital content…<br />
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Andre: Yes, because sometimes you have more than one client in the dispensary and you have many jars with different strains. With our platform the customer can just scan the barcode of say Blue Dream with their phone and find out the good and bad things, like leafly has, but right there in the store. And when the customer is in the area, to trigger messages like “Yo, your Blue Dream is fresh!” And they think, “Oh, my weed is finishing, I better buy now!”<br />
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Andre: The worst barrier for Weedup is the need for new innovations and tricks to use. If you just offer the platform sometimes clients don’t know how to use it. I offer a lot of services so if I have to tell them to keep the hashtag campaigns and share your content many times. It takes a lot of time. I have three other companies and since my English is not so good I’m like, “Oh man, I have to do Weedup, I need to find somebody who lives in U.S. and knows all the facts and loves weed and the digital things!”<br />
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“ I hung out with Mix Master Mike from Beastie Boys, and with the members of Cypress Hill. Even in the 90s we were making 420 songs in Brazil. ” <br />
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CCC: You’ve said that out of all the verticals your companies offers WeedUp is your favorite project. Why?<br />
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Andre: Because it’s got a lot of potential to help people discover. I can engage the audience with the best innovations around in 2015. It’s my favorite project because of the possibility to make money with delivery and use these tools to monetize for business owners. You can put something cool with the people.<br />
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Andre: One day in 1994, I couldn’t find my bong and I looked all over. A month later I come home and my brother had it and I saw his room was filled with hundreds of other bongs. So we decided to open a store. We also brought the first clear rolling papers to Brazil. I hung out with Mix Master Mike from Beastie Boys, and with the members of Cypress Hill. Even in the 90s we were making 420 songs in Brazil. My brother has a company, <a href="http://www.ultra420.com.br/">www.ultra420.com.br</a>, and everybody knows me as his brother, so I have to be very careful about marijuana because the laws are still very strict here.<br />
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Andre: It’s the customers. If I go to a dispensary and I don’t have time, it’s my first time in Colorado, and I don’t speak the English well, and I’m shy. I don’t want to waste this time, this precious time.<br />
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Andre: Yes, man, that’s it, that’s it. More comfortable.<br />
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Andre: April 2015. Three months ago. But I started before that. One day I woke up, and said “I want to go to Denver. I want to see the dispensaries”. I made a WeedUp business card then went to the Cannabis Cup and investigated the scene. I said to myself maybe this is worth my while. After Cannabis Cup I was excited about WeedUp and my other company Link Labs. I had a few big projects here in Brazil so I decided to use the technology I developed for WeedUp. So I combined technology from my two platforms, Link Labs and Pass Suite to create WeedUp.<br />
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Andre: When you can survive with something you like, you know that you’re right. In the Cannabusiness I can smoke and make good friends with honest people. We have our own language. I know marijuana can be good for you and it’s cool. This makes me happy because I can’t work with guns, with sex, with prostitution. Here I can apply my start-up to the topics I love with the friends I work with. If you have something to contribute, why not do it?<br />
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Andre: That there are people who are only in here to make money. Like some dispensaries, stores and certain publications. There are liars who are always trying to find a way to make more money. Sometimes I struggle with the amount of work and how to make people collaborate. It’s people who think they are too big and don’t want to listen to what you have to offer and say “why do I have to spend money with technology, I don’t want to sell discounts, I am making enough money, I don’t want to offer anything”. There’s a lot of arrogance, like “I’m the best vaporizer pen in the galaxy, I don’t need this”. Then there’s WeedMaps, they don’t have much competition so they don’t yet see the advantages of Weedup. On the other hand there are smaller companies that don’t have money and can’t participate just yet.<br />
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Andre: I need to find somebody to help spread Weedup in U.S., get salespeople in Colorado and California, my dream is to live there myself, and I hope this cannabusiness can help me achieve that dream. After coming back from Cannabis Cup, I was so excited, me and my wife started putting some things in the box to move to U.S.<br />
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Andre: In the coming years dispensaries and brands will be adding competition. When the US decides to legalize in other states, the newly legalized states will be watching. So the potential is with more competitors who will need a stronger digital presence. Therefore, the market is going to get better and better for the service I offer.<br />
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Andre: If I could choose one region to live in and one business to run, it would be Weedup in Colorado. I need to get WeedUp used by dispensaries in California and Colorado and I will use salespeople to help me do that. In the future I want to make an app like “Push for Weed” where you just tap a button on your phone or watch and weed comes to you. The next level is delivery. Most services are cash on delivery, so the question is how to make money using the credit card and processing. But right now, focus will be with sales. I have the service running but I don’t have people to visit clients, follow up and shake hands.<br />
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Andre: I would launch my own full service single application. One app with all the services and it would be easy to use. And start it up before weedmaps. (laughs)<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">He’s a happy guy, a humble guy, glad to be working in cannabis markets. When he started developing Duby, an iPhone app where cannabis enthusiasts can share content anonymously, he thought it was going to be just another share and like social network. Instead, it’s enabling users globally to connect locally.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> We’ve been working on Duby since last August so we’ve been working on it for a long time, but we launched that public beta for the latest versions on iphone in early April and since then we’ve learned a lot. In the last year we’ve learned a ton and this industry has just been fantastic. Users are great, investors are great. The entrepreneurs are great. it’s the nicest people in the world so I couldn’t be in a better industry, I think.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Last August we started working on duby and we’ve actually pivoted three different times to get to where we are right now. We started off as a deals app, because we were talking to users and users were telling us they wanted to find cheaper cannabis products because they’re so expensive in the dispensaries. So we launched kind of a like a little beta for a deals app, trying to figure out if that would have some traction. You know, it really did hit a spot in the market that needed something, some attention, but it didn’t have the long-term differentiator that we were looking for. So then we pivoted to another idea, and another idea, and we ended up over at this viral social network right now.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec::</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> What we’ve been working on in the past few months, and what we’re doing over the next couple months, is improving the app, building out the features that users are telling us that they want. We receive a lot of emails every day from people saying ”Hey, I think you guys should build this” or “you should change this”, “I really like this but I don’t like this” so we’re listening to all the users right now and trying to figure out the best way to kind of mash everything together, if that makes sense.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec::</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> To connect cannabis enthusiasts and medical patients around the world on a platform where they feel comfortable interacting. You know, one of the things I’ve seen, it’s interesting, I didn’t think that this platform was going to be what it is now when we launched it. It’s changed a lot and users have kind of driven it in the direction that they want it to go. We thought originally it was going to be this social network where you share your pictures and comment and whatever else, I mean it is that right now but people are actually connecting beyond that. For example, something that I see is a trend is that they are snapchatting each other, outside of the app. They’ll give each other their snapchat names and leave the app and try to connect on a more personal and emotional level.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Let me understand correctly. On Facebook, your posts go out to your friends and then it’s on your public timeline. On Duby, your shares go out to other Duby users in the area that you have not necessarily connected with before? </span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Exactly. That was the whole philosophy behind the app that we are really trying to highlight. It’s not about the followers you have. On Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, if you want to have something trend, you have to have hundreds of thousands of followers. On Duby you don’t need that because we were trying to make it a different type of social network. The way that we built this is when you launch a post, you’ll send it out to people that are closest to you. When you “light up a Duby” it will be “passed” to the people closest to you. The amount of people that it’s passed to is determined by this number called your “influence”, which is the gamification behind the app. If people are passing your content, you have popular content that’s trending around the world, your influence number will increase but it can also decrease. If your content is popular you can send it to out to more people, and then that allows you to have an even higher influence and be more of a power player inside the app.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Is Duby currently only operating in states where medicinal or recreational is legal? Is Duby available in other countries and how does the response differ in countries with a less lenient attitude?</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec: </strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Duby is worldwide. You can download the app anywhere around the world. One thing we had to do…my partner, his name is Russell Thomas. Before Duby, he was leading security teams at Fortune 500 companies for the past 20 years or so and so I got really lucky with having him on the team. We were able to build a platform that’s very secure and people can share information and we’re really able to make sure that nothing illegal is going on inside of the app. So if someone types something like “buy” or “sell” or something like that, we can get in there and just make sure that it’s not some sort of illegal activity that’s going on and we do our best at that, essentially.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> So not facilitating any illegal activity, just commenting on it, if you will. (laughs)</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Yeah, Yeah. I mean, cannabis enthusiasts, they want to connect with each other. It’s interesting, what I’m seeing inside of Duby is a lot different than what I thought it was going to be. It’s a lot more pictures of selfies, pictures of people than products. There’s still a lot of product in there, but we’re starting to see a trend where it’s more social-looking pictures because these people really do want to connect with each other.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Do you think that has anything to do with the idea that cannabis culture has always been kind of anti-commercial? What do you think is the reason behind that trend?</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec: </strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Well, I don’t think there’s a corporate feel. It’s a lot of pictures of product, but more like native pictures. People will take pictures of their bud or the different product they’re buying at dispensaries and trying to see what can trend worldwide. But I think it’s more or less that people think “what’s the most social thing you can do inside the app – taking a picture of your bud, or taking a picture of yourself?”, if you really do want to have a personal or emotional connection with someone, and that’s what we’re starting to see, that people do really want to connect, and we’re trying to figure out ways inside the app to allow them to connect on a more personal level and build relationships with people.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Cool. One of your big advantages is the anonymity and it is a problem, for example on Facebook, people are afraid to share stuff with, shall we say, risky content or subject matter.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> When we started this app, we thought the anonymity was something that was going to be a lot more important and it’s interesting. The way that we have it is you can go inside the app, create an account, we ask you for the littlest amount of information possible, but basically all we need is an email address, so if you lose your password we can get you your password back. But honestly, we don’t ask for that much information and people tell us a lot of information about themselves inside the app. So I think it’s starting to change a lot. The majority of users post information about themselves. So I feel like people are out and proud about it, about cannabis now.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"> J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Cannabis Crusaders, I call them.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Ha-Ha! Exactly!</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> How many users do you think you have approximately now?</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> We’re adding about 400 users a day right now, and the only platform we have is for ios. We just launched about 9 weeks ago or so now. We just started adding a lot of those users recently, so I think we’re a little over 10,000 now, like 12,000 or something.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Yeah, it seems like the majority of users are coming in through word of mouth. A lot of them are coming in through facebook and instagram, seeing us, our presence on there. We have a pretty good presence on social networks, on twitter. Alot of them are coming through there, about 70% of them.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Who do you consider your competitors, and what separates you from them? In our post on trends in the industry, we had you along with MassRoots, High There.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> What separates us not just from our competitors but from any other app is the algorithm that’s behind the app and the way people share information. Nobody’s really been able to pull off what we have in this app, as far as how the algorithm works. It is something that’s unique when you can share information to people that are closest to you based on proximity, and the users are starting to understand more how it works. We tried to simplify it and people are in the app talking about it, “Oh, I had this many passes and look how far my duby went”, and are sharing their stats externally. I saw a post on instagram last night actually where someone was sharing “I had 30,000 shares, I just created an account 4 weeks ago” So we’re starting to see a lot of that and I think that’s what separates us from any other app out there.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> I really enjoy the tagline and the wink winks to the culture too, like sliding right to “pass the duby”, left to “put it out”.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Users enjoy that too. It’s interesting, we were trying to figure out recently if we were going to change some things within the app and that’s something that we realized is here to stay.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> How would you describe what the app is about in 4 words? For example, a lot of people hear the slide right or left feature and they think “Tinder for stoners”. Do you see any comparison?</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> It all depends on how you design the interface. When we were creating a viable product and just trying to get it out there and test it, that was the easiest way to do it, and so the interface will change, in how it looks, and how it feels, but the way that it works will stay the same.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> I’m not as big a consumer as both my partners on my team. My other partner, Russ, is actually a medical user, his son’s a medical user. I originally moved out here about a year ago, last June or last May. Before that I was over at ASU and I was working in commercial real estate. I was doing a lot of sales my whole life, and I was in the navy.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> You were working in commercial real estate when you moved to Colorado?</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> No, in Arizona. I was a full time student with a full-time day job, then at night working with start-ups over the phone with my cousin Russ in Colorado, and eventually we just said “Hey, let’s do this.” We’ve always wanted to do a start-up. We both love cannabis and there’s a lot going on. So we said “Let’s pull the trigger.”</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Your partner is an MMJ user and on your website it says the target is MMJ users. Why not recreational, because I think rec users would love it too!</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> We target both. We don’t necessarily target one side or the other. Actually, it would be difficult to target one or the other on its own. There are a lot of medical users in the app, who are very open that they are medical users and I’d say it’s probably the majority, honestly. It doesn’t matter to us, recreational or medical. All that matters to us is that it’s the cannabis community. I don’t see a difference.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Was it a personal thing or an opening in the market? Was it like, this is an app I would like to use or did you see an opening and fill it?</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> My partner Russ, it was a totally personal thing for him. He thought of this idea last year, around August or September. He was thinking “this is something I would want”. And I started to get really into the idea. Mainly – Russ was explaining this to me – he says to me “I’ve been consuming cannabis my entire life, and it’s been this secret thing that you can’t bring out into public and it’d be so cool to connect with people, but connect with them locally, so you could see what’s going on around you, in your neighborhood or in the town, down the street or wherever it is, it’d be cool to see what people are doing, connect with them. If I’m alone on a Thursday night, Friday night, and I wanna hang out with people that have a like-minded interest. Like cannabis consumers, who are very different than any other group on the planet, the best group of people, the nicest group of people. We could create a platform that allows them to feel comfortable and connect with each other and share information and be social.” So my partner Russ was the guy who really wanted this idea and he really pushed us to do it.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> What was the raising capital process like for you? What insight can you give us into that?</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> We were fortunate enough to have the ability – my partner is older than me, I’m young, I’m 24, he’s older than me, around 40 years old – and he was able to fund us for about until June. We were able to get this going, we didn’t need a lot of money, we know how to really grassroots everything and do it as lean as possible. We raised our first seed round in early June from a local investor here and it’s enough to keep us going and really keep us moving. We’re adding a couple other parties into that same raise this month. It’s like raising money with anything else. We wanted to get investors who really see the long term goal, who are cannabis consumers. Our main investor now is a pretty big local investor, he’s a big guy. He, uh, consumes daily and he really gets it and he’s all about the end goal, which is really connecting people and making a product people love. Not focusing on the monetization side of it, but the product, and he’s just all about it. We got really lucky there. But I think raising money in this space is just like any other space. There are investors who are outside of this industry and want to get in. I don’t know if it’s easier to raise capital than it is in other spaces, but it is exciting!</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> What are some specific struggles of working in the cannabis tech industry?</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> I think we have a lot of struggles just like any other start up industry, as far as tech and anything else, but there’s nothing that stands out to me. A lot has changed over the last 18 months or so, to where I don’t think there’s really anything negative that we deal with right now. I think everything that we want to accomplish, we accomplish. I think a year ago, it was really hard to find developers who wanted to work in cannabis. It still is a little bit, there’s still a little bit of stigma there that if I’m a developer and I go to work for a cannabis company, that maybe I don’t want that on my resume, will it affect my future career if I go to work at Facebook. That’s what I was reading from these guys when I was talking to them. But we have really, really good developers, and we have some of the best developers probably in the industry. So I think that it’s getting a lot better in that regard.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> What feedback have you received? It seems people are doing what your original intention was, connecting with each other in their community. What are some examples of the email suggestions you’ve been getting?</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> The biggest one we received is that people want to see more local, more what’s around them in real time versus what’s going on around the world, which is very interesting. When we created this app, we thought it was going to be the exact opposite. That you’d want to go on Duby to see what’s going on worldwide, what’s trending in cannabis worldwide. But the majority of users want to see what’s going on locally, around them and they want to connect with people locally, around them in a way that they feel secure. So that’s a lot of the changes we’ve been making, trying to figure out how to help them connect with people locally, share information with people locally and make that a little more exciting. Add some options there.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> In Colorado and Washington, it’s more accepted. Let’s say in a place like Romania, some places that have harsher laws, how would you reach an audience, so that if someone in Romania who has the app would have users to “influence”?</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Ideally, you want that to be as close to you as possible. But if you’re in a country that doesn’t have any other users on it, the next country over would be what you see. It would be the closest dubys to you. As it becomes more populated, we have more content on the app, we have 1500-2000 Dubys that are created every day, we’re adding a lot of users so eventually it’s going to get to the point that it’s going to be everywhere, and that will solve that problem.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> So if I’m in Romania and the closest duby user to me is in Germany, my duby would get passed to him, even though he’s so far away, because he’s the closest?</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Yup, yup, that’s how it would work. For now, whoever’s closest to you that’s active on the app would receive that. I bet you that there are users that are somewhat closer.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> What’s cool about cannabis now and the industry now is it’s about breaking down stereotypes and getting people to be out and proud about it.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Well, yeah, that’s the end goal of the app, you know. I think a lot of the cultures and the stigma is going to change over the next 5-10 years. I think we’re going to see a big shift, we’ve already seen a big shift here in the U.S. I think it’s only going to go more in the right direction. I think internationally we’re going to see a lot of changes as well. From what I’ve seen on the app right now, we do have a lot of international users. It’s only going to keep growing. I think our biggest audience is going to be international down the road. I’m excited about connecting everyone so they can all share together even if they’re in a place that the culture isn’t there yet, they can at least jump on to a platform with like-minded people and be social and be who they are.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> That is what changes the attitude over time, when you get people to accept it. So I read about plans to monetize Duby. Was it always an intention to monetize, or was it just for fun at first?</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> You know, monetization isn’t going to be anytime soon. Eventually, you have to do it, just because it costs a lot of money to run an app and pay for everything. It really is a lot more expensive when you get into the nitty-gritty of it, but we don’t plan on monetizing it anytime soon. When I say soon, I mean I don’t plan on monetizing this app in the next year, two years. We’re trying to build an app that users love and that they want to use, and a product that they want to get on and use every day and they’re proud of. Once you figure that out, when you have something that’s cool that people like to use, then you can start playing around with it. Start figuring out “Do I want them to see an advertisement for a product that I like that I would actually want to see?” vs. just slamming them with stuff they don’t want to see. We would like to take a higher level approach than a Facebook, but like I said, it’s not going to be anytime soon.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> I wanted to ask, and you sort of answered, how that might affect your customer base.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> They wouldn’t want to see that right now, and honestly we’re way too early and there’s no reason to focus on that right now. We need to create something that users love. Once we have that, sure, let’s start playing around there, but again, it’s more important to create a product that people love and that would make me way happier than monetizing a company.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> You say you’ve been quiet lately, just trying to focus on listening to users, and you’re ready to start talking about some of the things you’ve been working on. So, what new things do you have to talk about?</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Mainly things that are going to allow people to connect on a local level. One thing we recently launched that’s doing very well is the videos. People are uploading a lot of videos and that’s doing very well. Something that we’re going to be adding in is the ability to chat with users a little more privately versus right in the middle of Duby. We’re planning on adding a direct messaging feature, we’re playing with some real time features so people can connect in the moment, right now type of scenarios. Playing around with things like that, but it’s really focusing on how can we give people to ability to connect in a way that they feel more comfortable. We’re getting very, very close to that.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> What do you have planned for the upcoming Android launch? What features will be introduced or bugs fixed?</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> I’m really excited about the Android launch. There are a ton of people who have been messaging or emailing us for the Android for months. It’s been a shame that we haven’t been able to build it sooner. It’s just one of those things, you have to put it off and make sure it’s going to work then go on to Android. We’re getting really close with Android, we’re probably about halfway done with the development. I hope that we can launch it in August. That’s what I’m hoping. It’s going to be exciting because we are launching new features exclusively for Android. Test them out and see how those do. I’m really excited about that.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Can you give me a preview of any of those features?</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Something that’s going to be interesting is we’re launching a new interface. You’re going to have the ability, for example, when you open up Duby, it’s not going to look like..even though it looks nice and it’s pretty now and we’ve put a lot of work into it..It’s going to look somewhat like facebook or twitter, it’s going to look so great and it’s so native to Android, so Android users are going to use it and the buttons are how they want it, everything works how they want it. We’ve spent a lot of time really trying to make it for Android. So I think that’s going to be really exciting and separate us from other apps in the space.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> I personally can’t wait for it to come out on Android. Beyond that, what are your future plans for expansion?</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> The biggest thing for us right now is we’re not so focused on growing the app as big as possible right now. What we’re focused on right now is improving what we have for the users that we have and once we have all of that situated, where everything in the app is running, our viral loop is at the best it can be, then we’re going on to turn on the gas, so to speak, and start really advertising and add a lot more users. Right now, we’re doing really well. Probably 25-30% of our users are active daily on the app. The active users are very high, and we’re just trying to figure out how to improve that even more, to stand out more in the industry, and to just make a better app. Then we just really turn it up, get it going and expanding.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Quick question: Why did you decide to spell it the way you do, with the u-y?</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Ha-ha. You know, Russ actually thought of that. We were playing around in his garage designing logos, just drawing them out. When you want a name for an app or anything really in the tech industry, you want it to be a little bit shorter and a little bit easier. At the same time, we wanted to do something that was just very different. It’s interesting – one thing I’m seeing in the app right now is that people are actually changing the way they spell doobie. They’re actually spelling it “d-u-b-y”. I thought that was kind of cool. It’s shorter, it’s easier. I feel like doobie is more of a vintage word. We’re bringing it back and making it a little more modern, whatever it is.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Version 2.0. The Reboot. The Redoob! So, finally, if you could do it all again, what would you do differently?</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec::</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Oh man, it’s too much! It’s like that with every start-up that you do, you’re going to make a thousand mistakes, and that will help lead you to where it needs to be. But it’s going to be like that every time, I think. In my mind that process can’t be avoided. I don’t really look back and think “Is there anything else I could have done differently.” I’m more or less trying to focus on where we are right now and where we want this to be in five years. You know, “What is the vision of the app?” I try not to dwell on different mistakes that we’ve made because that always going to happen, everyone makes mistakes. We make mistakes every day with Duby. And we need to execute and fix those very quickly and try to make this app better but just stay true to the long term vision.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alec:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> From what I’ve seen on the app, I’ve seen a lot of pictures of rallies, legalization rallies, not just in the U.S. but in Canada too, and it is really cool to see the pro legalization people in the app trying to spread the word and really showing everybody around the world what’s going on. It’s really cool, when you can see it unfolding in real time, “Oh look, they just legalized Oregon, and there’s another rally right now in Vancouver”, it’s really cool to see that.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">J:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> And that brings us back to your theme of connecting people. Nothing brings people together like sharing a duby. Thanks for sharing your duby with us, Alec, and we are totally excited here to get into the app and see what you guys are packing up for us in the future. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Well, I just want to say I think there was a lot to learn in what Mr. Rochford had to say about starting an app venture– That you need to be flexible, listen to feedback, fill a need you may not even know exists, focus on your users, and have patience to grow and cultivate. Thank You again, Mr. Alec Rochford.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Well, that’s okay because she can find you on <a href="http://www.cannafundr.com/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">C</a><a href="http://www.cannafundr.com/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">annaFundr</a>. Well, not exactly that perfect girl. More like the perfect investor. CannaFundr plays matchmaker to cannabusinesses and investors looking to cultivate this growing industry. CannaFundr is built using social media technology and owned and operated by CrowdFund Connect, which is exactly what it is: social media mixed with crowd funding mixed with an investor-business network. Their pitch is basically, in their own words: “Why spend time and money travelling around the country to pitch at conferences and events searching for key strategic investors? Pitch once on </span><a href="http://www.cannafundr.com/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">CannaFundr</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> - and get heard around the world!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">It’s getting a lot of attention, not just here on cashcowcannabis.com, and so far is the best known of its competitors, which include PotFunder.com, startuphangar.com and The Arcview Group. It’s free, which is attractive. They take it very seriously, it seems and want to build trust. I trust them. They seem solid. If you’re a business, be prepared to spend some time. They expect a complete profile and offer a lot of features to showcase your business. There’s a great deal of insider information that the investor can understand. Maybe not so much the business owner. There aren’t as many, for example, FAQ answers for businesses as investors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">They might even take it a little too serious. To see how it works I started a profile for my <a href="http://wayofthebong.com/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">James Bong: Cannabis Crusader comic book/movie universe,</a> although I could not complete the entire process as I do not yet have a pitch deck and executive summary completed. I want to believe this website can do what it says it does, but only two projects have been funded so far. It seems like a long shot and lacking a personal connection with investors, it’s hard to believe you could make an impact, or more so, why would an investor be looking on a web site for this? It’s very protective of investors, whereas I think it could be more effective if it encouraged the businesses to participate more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">As far as the social media aspect, I think it suffers from the same problem as CreativeDistrict.com, an awesome website which I loved but is no longer operating, due to the same reason I am about to cite. Creative District was a social media network for filmmakers, where, say, art directors could connect with screenwriters or producers, and build teams for their projects, and projects competed for $5000 every month. The problem there is everybody had a project. It was mostly above the line talent trying to win the money for their project, and so it was too competitive by nature for artists to connect in a meaningful way and support each other. I reached out to see how active cannafundr.com was, but it didn’t look like there was much interaction between businesses. Only a couple people replied to my outreach, or commented back. I could feel that same sense of “I’m really only here for my own project to get funded.” And not being able to see each other’s projects facilitates that, I think.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">So, upon closer inspection and giving it some time, I wasn’t so happy. I will say, my project looks good, and if there are investors out there looking at it, well, it’s great I can post so many pics, videos, etc. all for free, and it looks clean and professional! Something they could add is a way to receive feedback from these investors. That would be helpful. I want the ability to do follow-ups if an investor has shown interest in my project. Alas, we are living in a Brave New World of connected anonymity, and it can be a bit dispiriting. The web site functioning itself is a little troublesome and can be frustrating. Some links just bring you back to the home page. If you scroll below, there are just lots of words to read. The FAQs are mostly for investors. When I tried to go back to some features while building my profile, they weren’t accessible anymore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">I haven’t given up on CannaFundr.com. There is a lot to be learned on this web site if you are serious about raising capital and making connections and finding companies to collaborate with, and you could surf it for hours, I think, if you are on a research mission. With the competition aspect of the social media features, and the amount of hard work for anticlimactic responses, it can be hard to quantify the value of participation. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Like the cannabusinesses it is helping to grow, <a href="http://www.cannafundr.com/pages/about" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">Cannafundr.com</a> is a seed which requires cultivation.</span></div>
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With all the excitement around the cannabis industry, and the constant media coverage, and the ever-evolving law reform, we sometimes forget that cannabis is not yet fully mainstream. Not just in the USA, but all over the world. Founder and CEO of <a href="http://www.bitcoinseedstore.com/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">BitcoinSeed Store</a>, a store where you can make agricultural purchases with bitcoin currency and <a href="http://www.marijuanaseedstrainreview.com/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">Strain Grade (a.k.a </a><a href="http://www.marijuanaseedstrainreview.com/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">www.marijuanaseedstrainreview.com)</a>, a strain review web site, reminds us of this. Because it is still illegal to germinate cannabis seeds in most places, this CEO prefers to remain anonymous. So I’ll just christen him Sir Purple Haze. Sir Haze actually was able to parlay the skills he learned creating and perfecting his two online endeavors, graphics and the web, which he hopes to leave soon in favor of full-time cannabis tech success. Although he was at first hesitant to share his experience on a resume, lately he’s finding himself ready to say “Fudge it!” and display some cannabis pride!<br />
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sir Purple Haze: </strong>We’re aiming at both. At sites like Leafly, it’s the opposite. I don’t want to say they are ashamed of cannabis but the way they portray themselves is very kind of low key, it’s very plain. I think the guy’s idea was for you to be able to look at strains on your phone in confidence and not have other people looking and saying “What are you doing?”, and I can understand where they are coming from. We’re a little less that way. We’re happy to be aimed at recreational users as well as at medical users.</div>
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It’s hard because it’s just starting, it’s like a big mass of them at once, and I guess we haven’t quite worked out as an industry the best way to categorize them in a standardized way. I’m sure something like that will come along.<br />
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There are so many badly done websites in the cannabis industry and we're aiming to change that. I don’t know if it’s laziness or because it was never a properly recognized industry but people are allowing themselves to slack on design, or customer service. We’re hoping to be one of the websites that is the opposite. Other than Leafly, who have set the standard. With becoming accepted, this has to change.</div>
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It’s also a follow on from before the internet. Mail order customer service was quite bad back in those days. Because there was no instant email to let them know what’s going on. It’s changing and I hope what we do, people like it, as opposed to being kept in the dark. People who come into my friend’s head shop say how bad the customer service is at seed banks especially some of the big ones.</div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sir Purple Haze: </strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">I started studying bitcoin in 2012 and when I finally bit the bullet and bought something, I watched my money just go up and up and up. I started Bitcoin Seed Store in 2013 initially, after I became a little obsessed with bitcoin. While I was learning about it, I was trying to come up with a way to make a little bit coin on the side and that was it. There were all these people with bitcoin but they had very few places to use them so I wanted. When we first started, there were a couple others out there, but I’m fairly certain they’re not around anymore, they’ve given up. It’s the kind of people who are only in it for the money, as opposed to doing something to help.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sir Purple Haze: </strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Well it actually started out as a shitty blog that reviews each strain. I wanted to do something separate from Bitcoin Seed Store that would have more information for people. It was literally the worst thing I have ever created. One day I looked at it and thought I can't put my name to that! I really have to do something! It kind of spiraled out of control from there on. I worked on the design, and I became really happy with it. It’s, ha, grown from there, really.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sir Purple Haze: </strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Yeah, yeah, of course, and I don’t think there’s really any other way you can run a business and you shouldn’t run a business any other way. Not doing that seemed alien to me. It’s the only way we operate.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sir Purple Haze: </strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">There’s always going to be competition regardless. My way of looking at it is: there’s always enough to go around, always enough people as long as your site isn’t an absolute piece of s***. Then you’ve got some chance.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sir Purple Haze:</strong> I<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">t was really more organic. I’ve always been, for a long time, involved in cannabis in some way. It just seemed like the logical next step, really. Even if the industry wasn’t taking off, I would have done it regardless. It’s nice that it’s happening, but it’s not something that made me make any decisions to do it.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sir Purple Haze: </strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> With all the legalization going on in the US we wanted to do something to help people with finding the right strains but with more information and details about the medical benefits of each one.</span><br />
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sir Purple Haze: </strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">It was self-funded at the start but now it runs itself. There are a few people we partner with in both the UK and US. We’ve got a couple of writers for strains reviews, and I’ve got people in the UK and we help promote each other and help each out. I do the tech stuff, the majority of it, to a point. If I can’t do it myself, I’ll get someone else to do it. But I like to try doing things myself first. If you’re having trouble with code or something, nine times out of ten, someone has asked on a forum, and nine times out of ten, someone answered it. I like to try and be as independent as possible. I quite enjoy it at the moment.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sir Purple Haze: </strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> That’s one of the hard things to nail down. People react differently to different strains just as to different drinks, so sometimes, we’ll review something we like and someone else will hate it, or absolutely love it when we think the opposite. A lot of it is personal preference. We have people who will send me reviews of strains as they are trying them in Amsterdam. I try to be as objective as possible, really. There’s always going to be personal experience, you can’t get around that, so we just try to be objective.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sir Purple Haze: </strong>It's all online of course. We use social media, web ads, competitions, we even have a mobile app! We send out email campaigns, use Twitter quite a lot. We’re working on the community side of it, building a forum and way for visitors to the site to interact with each other. You’ll be able to message each other, post where you bought reports or strain reports, whatever you want really. We try to interact with our followers, post pictures, links to interesting articles that we’ve written, or other people have written.</div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sir Purple Haze: </strong>Not so much. I just feel like because it varies so much with what we think about each strain, it’s a good idea to let people be vocal as much as possible.</div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sir Purple Haze: </strong>At the moment it’s a bit of a stop gap. It’s an android app that shows off our most popular strains and it gives people the ability to jump on the site and view them as well. The plan is in the pipeline to build a better app that’s not just limited to 30 strains. The app is free.</div>
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From my side of things, the app is a clever way to get people to come to the site and get more exposure really. I don’t have the massive marketing budget weedmaps or leafly has so I tried to do something different, and that’s how it came about. It’s quite basic. It looks nice, the designs really nice. We’d like to add a search engine.</div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sir Purple Haze: </strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">I guess people would say price volatility but I rarely look at the price anymore. I looked a couple of days ago for the first time in several weeks and it had gone up by about £50! Bitcoin can be quite volatile in price. A lot of people who don’t know it or use it, will use the volatility as a big negative. I got beyond that stage and I know the underlying technological worth behind bitcoin, and I’m pretty certain it is very, very undervalued .</span><br />
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sir Purple Haze: </strong>Compliments from people and being involved in something new and exciting.</div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sir Purple Haze: </strong>It is a new industry so a lot of companies are still finding their feet. As an industry were still working on the best way to do things. Some companies like Leafly have been doing some great work to educate people and help normalize the image of cannabis.<br />
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sir Purple Haze: </strong>We operate fully within the law. We’re not allowed to give grow advice because it’s legal to sell seeds but not to germinate them which is obviously really annoying. I should be able to give people as much information as possible when they buy from me. It’s ridiculous when you think about it. I can pay taxes on it, they’re happy to take my taxes but I can’t sell grow equipment with it and a host of other things that you’re not allowed to do.</div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sir Purple Haze: </strong>Of course it’s limiting, I feel limited. Certain things maybe you can’t advertise in. For example, when I first created the site, I created a google + page and within about six weeks of having it, they decided they would no longer let me have the page because of what I was putting on there. Just pictures and articles and links to the strains on my site. From that side of things it’s kind of annoying. </div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sir Purple Haze: </strong>There's one I can think of...</div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">CCC: </strong>What I like are the extra articles and recipes. I could surf it all day. What do you think are the most appealing features of Strain Grade? What could be improved?</div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sir Purple Haze: </strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Personally I love how it looks, even if I’m biased! It's a great way to get information and see what people like about different strains. I love every aspect of it, same as everyone who loves what they’re doing. There’s not a moment, even when I’m doing social media or the website, that I’m not enjoying it. I’m genuinely interested in every aspect of it. There’s not a topic within it I wouldn’t happily read about or write about or talk to people about. I love it all!</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sir Purple Haze: </strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">That’s one of the sides we’re working on, more articles, more recipes, and interesting bits to read on there. We're in the process of adding a load of new strains. And we have some very interesting things in the pipeline, especially for Strain Grade</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sir Purple Haze: </strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">I think utmost maximum it will be fully legalized in the US in ten years, maximum, and that is seriously pushing it as well. I think 99% of the states will have fully legalized it, so federally they’ll have no option but to do it, and other countries will fall in with that. Basically the quicker America gets a leave on, the quicker we can all get on with it. (laughs) We won’t do anything until America pulls its finger out so please hurry up!</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Sir Purple Haze:</strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Sell everything I own and buy bitcoin as soon as I heard about it!</span></div>
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Well, Sir, you certainly have pioneered a brilliant, first of its kind idea with this use of bitcoin, and a strategy that is very smart. Thanks for sharing some more specifics about it, and we wish you luck and freedom for the future!</div>
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Who wants to be a boring old bartender these days? “Cocktail” was over 25 years ago. It’s passé. Today the cool kids are becoming budtenders in the exciting new world of legalized cannabis! I’m here to tell you how to become a budtender.<br />
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The first requirement is passion. A passion for cannabis, preferably. This is truly a job where you can take those years of experience with your love for marijuana and apply them. Isn’t that what mom used to always say? “If only he would apply himself…” The most in demand skill in the field of budtender jobs is knowledge of the plant, of edibles, of the effects, of the smoking methods, and also, of the laws. So study, buddy! Know your different strains. Your concentrates and extractions. Homework has never been this fun! With the technological advances of recent years, it’s becoming a science. You can get a certification, schools are popping up, most notably <a href="http://oaksterdamuniversity.com/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">Oaksterdam University </a>in California but also in less legalized places like Florida. However, while being certifiable looks good on a resume, employers are more interested in solid skills and a demonstration of commitment to marijuana, either through work or volunteer experience. In fact, in California, many budtenders are volunteers known as caregivers.<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> </span>Because California was the first state to legalize medical marijuana, budtenders in the golden state have a particular reverence for this “beautiful” medicine, which truly helps people cure what ails them without resorting to addictive, harmful pharmaceuticals.</div>
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One caveat similar to working in a restaurant is that old adage “We’re looking for someone with experience.” Well then, where am I going to get experience? Like in restaurants, a lot of budtenders I spoke with got their budtender jobs through contacts or friends, or in some cases, their grandmother. So it helps to be friendly and get out there on the scene. Visit dispensaries and inhale as much as you can! If you are just breaking in, most staffing agencies are looking for experience in customer service or retail. Hands on experience in growing marijuana or selling it is a plus. But no particular education is required. A GED, 2-year or 4-year education is acceptable, according to staffing agencies. What matters is self-education, catching up and keeping up with the latest strains. There’s plenty of info out there! Some dispensaries in Colorado and Washington are even growing marijuana on site, which I would say qualifies as on the job training! What dispensary managers are looking for are people with knowledge and spunk, who enjoy talking to lots of people.</div>
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That is one thing which is like being a bartender. Listening to people’s problems. All day long. Especially if you are in a medical facility, a dispensary as opposed to a recreational store. There are fine lines, but this is where it gets a little hazy, this odd legal distinction. In a medical facility, budtenders have to function as doctors. People come in looking for advice, telling you what they are suffering from, and although they are not medically licensed, budtenders will be expected to know what cures what and dosages and effects just as a pharmacist would. It’s kinda weird and in a legal grey area. Whereas in recreational stores, budtenders lips are tied, and they legally are forbidden from giving medical advice, even though customers are coming in and asking. Budtenders in recreational stores still have plenty to talk about, and must enjoy meeting new people, since there are so many folks just discovering the wide world of cannabis. Who had only swallowed the decades of propaganda and were not properly informed about the complexities of the plant. If you’re going to get a budtender job, know it’s your duty to protect these cannabis consumers from misinformation!</div>
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Which brings up another foggy dilemma. You would tip your bartender. Should a budtender expect tips? This is still being decided even within the community. Since recreational budtending jobs have such restrictions, they can’t always give tip-worthy advice. And since they are not actually lighting your bong for you, which would be akin to a bartender mixing drinks, tipping doesn’t always come as a reflex. Medicinal budtenders usually have to spend a lot more time with patients and explain products and effects, but you wouldn’t tip your doctor. So while most budtenders are deserving of tips, because it’s retail this isn’t always obvious. Some places do put out tip jars, and some budtenders can make up to $50 a shift in tips.</div>
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And that brings me to salary. Most budtender jobs are entry level, so they start, depending on the region, at $10 to $13 an hour, which I think is at least more than McDonalds. It can go up to $18 based on experience, but there’s not a lot of room for advancement. You do try the product, but you don’t brag about it and treat the plant with respect and reverence. Tax money will come out. It will be a normal paycheck. The US government may not approve of what you’re doing, but they are pleased to take the money you earn from it. Also, expect a background check, which sadly is not really unique to this industry. A prospective bartender has no reasonable expectation of privacy anymore either in this place we still call America.</div>
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But I don’t want to end on a buzz kill. No Debbie Downer here – hey budtenders, what strain would you recommend for her? The most important part of being a budtender is like any other industry, you need to be informed about it. Keep up to date on different types of cannabis, effects, advancements in technology and the field, new products. Look for jobs on sites like <a href="http://cannajobs.com/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">Cannajobs</a>, <a href="http://420careers.com/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">420Careers</a>, and <a href="http://www.thcjobs.com/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">THCjobs.com</a>. Sign up with staffing services like <a href="https://www.hemptemps.com/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">H</a><a href="https://www.hemptemps.com/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">emptemps</a> or <a href="http://www.weedhire.com/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">weedhire</a>. And if you live in one of the lucky states, become a part of the community. Be prepared to spend some money in the REC states as you will need a MED badge and this involves license fees. Remember, how to become a budtender is like how to become anything else. Except you are on the forefront of a new horizon, blazing towards the new frontier. And we will know we’ve reached it when they finally make a “Cocktail” movie for budtenders!</div>
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It’s no secret that the business of legal weed is literally booming. Even though the marijuana mania that we saw when Colorado and Washington first made herb legal for recreational use is beginning to die down doesn’t mean that the industry has slowed in the slightest.<br />
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This means there’s money to be made in marijuana. A lot of money. And you don’t even have to be a “gangapreneuer” to get a piece of the pie. Investing in marijuana has a lot of people thinking green…cash and chronic included.<br />
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The Risks and the Rewards<br />
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Investing in marijuana, whether it’s a marijuana company or marijuana stocks, could offer a pretty nice return if all goes well and at the moment that's a pretty big if. Even though marijuana’s legal, it’s not yet legal at the federal level. At any time the federal government can pull the rug out from under the whole thing, leaving would-be investors empty handed.<br />
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Legally investing in marijuana comes with risks, but with risk also comes reward. With business already in the billions and estimates that the industry will be worth $15.2 billion by the year 2020, it seems like the right time to invest in cannabis is…now. Weighing the risks versus the rewards is ultimately up to you.<br />
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If you’re going to invest in any of the already established medical marijuana companies (which is ultimately the best idea) or drop some dough into some of the more popular publicly traded marijuana companies (yes, they exist), it’s obviously wise to know where to put your money.<br />
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The most recent market cap by marijuana industry sector (through April 2015) looks something like this: <br />
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Pharma/Research $1.5 billion <br />
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There’s big money in many different sectors, with more than enough room to grow. Perhaps the biggest eye opener of just how much potential legally investing in marijuana holds came in the beginning of 2015 when PayPal co-founder Peter Theil put down some serious cash to participate in a $75 million funding round to help Privateer Holdings (the first US-based private equity fund for marijuana) expand.<br />
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Where will you decide to drop a dime? The best thing you can possibly do is stay informed. Watch the market. Look to see which cannabis companies are killing it and what ones are being phased out. In a market that is seriously changing every day, you run more opportunity to succeed in your investments if you know who’s doing what.<br />
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If the stock market’s your thing and you’re thinking that marijuana stocks could be your next big break, you might be on the right track. There are about 80 different stocks to choose from in marijuana right now, some of them legit and others totally shady.<br />
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<a href="http://www.aerogrow.com/investors/">AeroGrow International Inc. (AERO) </a>and <a href="http://www.zonedproperties.com/investors/">Zoned Properties Inc. (ZDPY)</a> are both some of the more popular stocks for those that have become interested in investing in marijuana. <a href="http://ir.gwpharm.com/">GW Pharmaceuticals (GWPH)</a> is another big player and is one that has been known as a market leader. Stocks have seen rises from $67 to the high $80s in this company, although it’s not constantly holding at these high numbers.<br />
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There are also a number of smaller stock options in many publicly traded marijuana companies, but in this emerging industry it’s hard to tell what’s really going to last. Keep in mind that this is brand new business and an extremely risky one at that.<br />
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According to Anthony Cataldo, accounting professor at Arizona State University who has kept a keen eye on the business of marijuana investments, marijuana stocks could reap high returns…until the next blow to all this legal pot business. If the federal government comes in and shuts this legal business down, trading in marijuana market may collapse.<br />
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Cataldo has studied this area of the market in detail and found that of the 60 publicly traded companies who were trading marijuana stock, only 21 of them had working capital. Numbers like these tell the truth while many scramble to become part of this burgeoning business. To invest or not to invest, that is the question.<br />
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It can go both ways. If things continue to boom (which we all hope is the case) investing in both retail and medical marijuana companies could just be your ticket to stacks of cannabis cash. If not, you better hope you’ve planned ahead. Your best bet is to proceed with caution until you know exactly where this rapidly changing industry is headed.<br />
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<a href="http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/022715/2015-marijuana-stock-analysis.asp">http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/022715/2015-marijuana-stock-analysis.asp</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-weed-index/">http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-weed-index/</a><br />
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<a href="http://marijuanastocks.com/top-5-marijuana-stocks-watch-2015/">http://marijuanastocks.com/top-5-marijuana-stocks-watch-2015/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/22/">http://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/22</a><br />
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">If you’re a baker who likes to get baked, opening a business in the edibles industry could be your foot in the door in the legal business side of marijuana. Unlike recreational pot shops and dispensaries that are starting to line the streets in places like California and Washington, there aren’t as many opening their doors to sell THC (and CBD) infused treats.</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Not only is there zero competition from the black market (there’s not many pot </span><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">brownie </em><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">dealers out there) but as the legal weed market continues to grow there’s going to be a huge increase in demand for edible cannabis products.</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">It’s already happening…and Cheba Chews and gummy weed worms aren’t the only options out there. Pot’s become sophisticated and the pot brownies of yesterday are being replaced with elaborately decorated cakes (420 wedding anyone?), heady cannabis-infused dinners, and candies that would make Willy Wonka proud.</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Before you break out your rolling pin, there are definitely some things you want to think about. Ask yourself the following and </span><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">then</em><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"> decide if you want to tie the apron strings and get out your mixing bowl.</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">A word of advice. Do your research. A business in the edibles industry can either make or break you. Find someone successful who’s gone before you and learn from them as much as you can. If you know what you’re doing when you go into it there’s definitely potential to make some serious cash off your cannabis cookies, cupcakes, and cakes.</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">If you’re not independently wealthy, you’re going to have to get a loan. Better get to business planning if this is the case. Although most banks in the US won’t give out loans for marijuana related businesses, the people that will are going to want to see that you’ve got your shit together and you’re not just some idiot who thought they’d try their hand at a weed business. It is weed, but it </span><em style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">is</em><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"> business.</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">With a lot of planning and a little love, opening a business in the edibles industry could turn into a seriously lucrative career. It’s just the beginning and you can bet that if you do it right your edibles business is going to boom.</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">The edibles business in Colorado is certainly booming. In 2014 the state sold almost 5 million edibles, a number that’s pretty indicative of big business. If you’ve got your business plan in order and you’re ready to get your bake on, there’s a few things you need to know.</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">When it comes to resale of edible marijuana products, Colorado laws have gone through some changes. Edibles sold recreationaly must now have 10 or fewer milligrams of THC. The Marijuana Enforcement Division is now providing incentives for Colorado companies to produce edibles that contain 10 mg or fewer of THC by placing greater burdens on manufacturers producing products with 10-100 mg of THC. Basically, if you’re going to want to bake with weed, your products can’t contain more than 10 mg of THC per serving or you’re going to get busted out of businesses.</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">What this means is you’ll have to find a state licensed lab that will run tests on your products, something that is always performed with accurate results. Seeing that weed isn’t even legal at the federal level there’s been no regulations set up when it comes to testing it accurately for levels of THC. Many edible businesses in the state have found that there’s definitely discrepancies between different labs.</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Another thing to keep in mind is that testing isn’t free. You’ll spend thousands of dollars getting your product tested, but it’s a necessary evil of staying on the right legal side of things. Once you’ve got your product dialed in however, is where things get even trickier and the challenge begins of introducing your product to the public.</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">You’ll need to find a commercial kitchen to rent that allows you to cook with marijuana on their premises, or if you’ve got the money you can buy your own kitchen. It must meet the standards for commercial use and be registered with the state as a marijuana business.</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Once cooking in your commercial kitchen, you’ll need to figure out packaging for your final perfected product. With restrictions on advertising edibles, packaging your product plays a big part of how well it will sell. You better have an attractive image, but not too attractive to make it enticing to kids. Section R 1001 of the Permanent Rules Related to the Colorado Retail Marijuana Code now state that labels and packaging cannot appeal to children.</span></div>
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<span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">When you do it right and get passed all the necessary legalities that are involved in opening an edibles business, you’re going to find that if you’ve got a good product it’s going to sell. Research what products are popular with other Colorado companies and make something better. Baked goods are booming, but you can bet that as things progress you’ll start to see entire restaurants dedicated to serving cannabis infused dishes. Bon appetit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">In the midst of a sluggish economy, cannabis jobs are getting all the buzz as the new emerging industry and the next Great American Opportunity. Some even call it the Green Rush. And as with any new sector of the economy, a legal marijuana industry means marijuana jobs! New websites are popping up to cover the financial side, like GreenrushInvestors.com and MJBizDaily.com. Media reports project different numbers over different time spans, but they’re always in the tens of billions and growing, growing, growing!</span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> In the first year of Colorado’s great “legal weed experiment”, the state collected $44 million in tax revenue, and Washington State increased its coffers by $16.3 million in its first six months. This is just from recreational markets. As with any other industry, there are many more ancillary positions than just weighing out grams at a pot dispensary. Many job qualifications remain the same as in any other industry. But the emergence of the cannabis industry has an unprecedented historical significance and as an industry emerging from the shadows, there are some complications unique to landing one of the coveted “weed jobs”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">So before you pack up your baggies and head west, keep in mind there are some things to consider. To learn more about what it’s like finding employment in the cannabis industry, I turned to the qualified professionals at some of the many staffing and temp services that are cultivating talent to fill the needs of the market. They include Staffing Services like <a href="http://thcstaffinggroup.com/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">THC Staffing Group</a>, <a href="http://www.thctalentsolutions.com/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">THC Talent Solutions</a>, <a href="http://msmarystaffing.com/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">Ms Mary Staffing</a>,<a href="http://www.grasshopperstaffing.com/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">Grasshopper Staffing</a>, and <a href="https://www.hemptemps.com/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">HempTemps</a>. Legitimizing an industry that previously was associated with criminals and “drug dealers” is a challenge, so it is taking some time to demonstrate that companies aren’t just looking for, as Daniel Peck of THC Talent Solutions puts it, “stoners looking for free product”, but in fact “hard-working employees”. And these employees can come from any sector of the economy, not just previously illegal trades.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Positions range from being a budtender or a trimmer, both highly in demand positions and requiring some specific knowledge, to traditional positions like sales, IT, marketing, lab, design, security, even now the industry is generating construction and legal jobs. Employers want easily adaptable people who are experienced. So you can also take experience from traditional positions that are non-cannabis related and use it to enter a trade specific to the industry. For example, a potential budtender can apply with any customer service background, while a trimmer or grower can come from any botanical background as long as they apply these skills to cannabis. Shannon Foreman of Hemp Temps prefers commercial experience, but will look on a resume for “something that fits where they will be placed.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The most important thing I hear from all the agencies is to be knowledgeable. Do your homework and be prepared to study. The biggest problem in the industry right now is people wanting to hop on the budwagon without really understanding the industry. As Steven Sullivan of Ms Mary Staffing points out: “This industry is practically brand new, so there’s a huge talent pool of people that don’t have experience in this industry, so it’s about getting them in, getting them experience, getting them trained, and knowing products. Not only different strains of marijuana but also the different kinds of edibles because they are going to be working with customers on a day-to-day basis”. Many of the agencies, including Grasshopper Staffing and HempTemps, offer in-house training programs. They might then place you in an internship to see if you really got what it takes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">One of the other problems that comes up is people wanting to relocate to get in on the action. Not so fast! There are a lot of restrictions on the burgeoning marijuana industry. There are more requirements than your average industry, though it varies from state-to-state. In Colorado, for example, workers are required to hold a MED badge, and the agencies won’t even consider you if you don’t have one. You will have to pass a background check and pay licensing fees. Be prepared to make an investment in yourself because, as Cheri Zanotelli of Grasshopper Staffing notes, “The state needs their cut.” Standards are looser in California, where there are no standardized regulations, and many caregivers working in medical marijuana jobs are technically “volunteers”. But you don’t have to necessarily go west. The next big market is Illinois, and some services, like THC Talent Solutions and Ms Mary Staffing, place candidates nationwide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">As usual, standard problems plague the industry. Theft is a concern, hence the background checks. But Ms. Foreman says “the MED badge program weeds them out pretty well for us”. Compliance and efficiency are on employers minds. Overstating your skills is a problem not all that different from secretaries reporting their words per minute abilities. Ms. Foreman explains how “possible candidates fib about the amount of weight they can put out while trimming. For example, they say they can trim 2 ibs in an 8 hour shift. Come to find out they cannot even hit 250 grams. It’s Microsoft word all over again!” Then there are the industry specific complications or things that don’t occur to naïve newbies. Ms. Zanotelli tells me “Some of our applicants take a trimming job and don’t understand some grows may require them to stand at length and they didn’t really count on that. And, you know, when you’re working in one of these facilities, your clothes and hands absorb the odor of the plant, your money absorbs the odor, so that’s always a surprise to people.” Another industry specific issue is adherence to the law. Daniel Peck says that “most of a budtender’s day revolves around knowing how not to break the law. Make sure things are packaged properly, sell within the weight requirements, check IDs, treat customers kindly, and never, ever recommend that someone take more than the state’s suggested edibles dosage of active THC.” Confidentiality is also an issue and all of Grasshoppers candidates have to sign a confidentiality agreement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">So what is the big payday for all this? Is there really gold in them thar herbs? Again, not so different from McDonalds or any other field. Entry level positions, like budtenders sales or trimming, will get an hourly wage, in most places, between $10-$15 an hour commensurate with experience, and depending on the living standards of the region. Management positions can come with a salary anywhere between 50k and 100K. Since many companies are starting out, they will offer higher commissions or equity in exchanged for a reduced base. There are many available entry-level positions that don’t have a lot of room for career growth plus require experience, and Ms. Title believes that “In general, people should expect to take a pay cut if they are coming from outside the industry. But marijuana companies make up for this by usually having a lot more opportunities for growth and advancement.” The one thing you can expect? A normal paycheck, with all the taxes taken out. That’s right, even though he won’t grant you a bank account, Uncle Sam is glad to take your tax dollars. So theoretically a “cultivation expert” in Colorado could be paying for the incarceration of someone in Kansas doing the exact same thing he is. Ms. Zanotelli says “It’s very interesting how they can do that.”</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_17_2_5_1437351543612_9174" style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">So, yeah, you do have to get your unemployed butt off the couch to find work in the cannabis industry. There are a number of ways to get in, even without experience. The first and most effective way is to have friends or family in the business, to get a position through contacts, especially for cannabis jobs, because in that way the industry is still like “ummm, yeah, do you got a hook-up? Think you could vouch for me?”, thanks to its decades long tainted reputation. Be a cannabis crusader, of course, and don’t reinforce the negative perceptions. Ms. Zanotelli says that “In my experience, the most promising candidates can demonstrate both an excellent work record and a strong commitment to moving the marijuana movement and industry forward.” Trade shows and job fairs can be an effective place to make contacts as well as networking groups and conferences. Stephen Sullivan says that companies are looking at “a talent pool without experience.” So be knowledgeable , study this stuff, what could be more fun? It will make you stand out in a crowded garden. There is training available. Daniel Peck tells me “There are established training academy's that teach skills such as bud tending or pot dispensary management but don't guarantee employment once the training is completed. It's just like school. You show up, study, get a degree and then need to find a job.” You can find postings for jobs on new sites like 420careers.com, Cannajobs.com and THCjobs.com. The staffing services all have websites, and regularly use Twitter, LinkedIn, and some mainstream sites to maintain their database in addition to posting on the 420 job sites. Really, it’s all about your character, passion, drive and commitment, not just to cannabis but to high standards, no pun intended. Shaleen Title at THC Staffing Group sums it up: “At this relatively early stage, anyone can be successful in the marijuana industry if they take the time and effort to understand the industry first and then make the right connections. Reaching out to recruiting companies like ours is just one way to make a connection. I encourage people to frequent marijuana dispensaries and businesses, learn how they work, and make friends with the people who work there.” So what are you waiting for? All 50 states to legalize? Go out there and get your weed job today!</span></div>
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A: I usually wake up around 5:30am and start checking my email, twitter, linkedIn, etc to catch up on what's been happening over night. I respond to anything that I handle quickly and easily. Then I have "mommy work" until 8:30am which is when I'm at my office after dropping off my kiddos at school. From about 8:30-10:30 it's all about emails, proposals, and networking. After that I get busy doing graphics until around 3pm then it's back to the school and my job as Mom. I return to graphic work in the evenings from 8-10pm...then fall into bed ready to start all over again the next day.<br />
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Q: <b>Is</b> <a href="http://marijanainfophics.com/">marijanainfophics.com</a> <b>your first cannabis venture? If not please tell me a little about the others</b><br />
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A: yes<br />
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<b>Q: What events/decisions led you to open your cannabis business?</b><br />
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A: I was an elementary school teacher for many years. During that time I loved making fun visuals that helped my students understand and remember complicated information. I've also always supported the movement to end cannabis prohibition. When CO went legal in January 2014, I got involved with social media and began posting graphics about cannabis. People seemed to really enjoy my graphics so it just grew from there.<br />
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“it’s growing fast & furious. I have job ads out right now sales, and graphics positions. We are officially hiring and that’s really exciting to me”</h2>
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A: My husband has helped shape my business skills and the way I handle workflow. He's an amazing business professional and I can always get his opinion on anything that has to do with <a href="http://www.marijuanainfographics.com/">MarijuanaInfogrpahics.com</a> & business.<br />
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<b>Q: Has there been a single event/decision that lead to growth in your company?</b><br />
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A: No single event other than making the leap from employee to self-employed!<br />
Do you have employees? if so how many?<br />
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Most of Marijuanainfographics.com is just me. However, it's growing fast & furious. I have job ads out right now sales, and graphics positions. We are officially hiring and that's really exciting to me.<br />
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<b>Q: What type of paperwork was involved when starting your company? i.e. licensing, incorporating etc.</b><br />
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A: A LOT. Forming the LLC, taxes, business checking account, business office address and all in the South where anything and everything cannabis is still very much frowned upon.<br />
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PotStockRadio & Cannabis Marketing Lab<br />
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“I once caused a near twitter riot when I posted “Go Ohio!” with an article about Ohio cannabis legislation. I was quickly realized that most of Ohio is NOT in favor of this particular legislation.”</h2>
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A: I tend to visit more graphic design blogs than anything else. I'm always looking for new ideas and graphics that stand out.<br />
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A: Favorite? Hmmm... I once caused a near twitter riot when I posted "Go Ohio!" with an article about Ohio cannabis legislation. I was quickly realized that most of Ohio is NOT in favor of this particular legislation.<br />
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<b>Q: What takes up most of your time with</b> <a href="http://mairjuanainfographics.com/">mairjuanainfographics.com</a>?<br />
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A: Creating graphics. But it's also the part I enjoy the most.<br />
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<b>Q: How long have you been in business with marijuana infographics?</b><br />
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A: Going on 6 months<br />
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<b>Q: How do you network? via twitter, going to events?</b><br />
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A: LinkedIn, Twitter, Email, etc. I also speak at industry events.<br />
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<b>Q: How has changing legislation (I.e. legalization of cannabis), affected your business so far?</b><br />
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A: More and more people are seeing cannabis as a business opportunity and not just a stoner drug. The changing legislation helps bring more businesses looking for great custom graphics.<br />
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<b>Q: Was it difficult to get the funding you needed?</b><br />
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A: Yes, it's hard to get funding in this industry. I've had to self fund everything.<br />
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A: I am very type A and committed to my clients. With me you get the creative type + the business type. I meet deadlines, answer emails, and am 100% professional. That's tough to find in this industry.<br />
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<b>Q: Who are your most popular type clients? i.e. dispensaries, cannabis growers?</b><br />
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A: Mid to large businesses who need their marketing freshened up a bit or business that have a great, yet slightly complicated, product that they need customers to "see" and not just read about.<br />
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A: LLC, advertising, website development<br />
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“Just because it’s cannabis doesn’t mean it’s all smoking pot and chilling. It’s pretty much the opposite. Expect to work much harder than you thought and to be happier than you thought.”</h2>
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A: Just patience and real desire to be part of this movement<br />
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<b>Q: How do you stay organized? What technology do you use? do you have an assistant?</b><br />
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A: Desktop, laptop, phone, ipad. I'm always checking in and reading up. Trying to stay ahead of the game.<br />
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<b>Q: What are deal killers for you?</b><br />
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A: Successful -passion, patience, purpose. Killers - "stoner mentality", lack of drive, poor work ethics.<br />
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<b>Q: What advice would you give to others looking to start a business like yours?</b><br />
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A: Just because it's cannabis doesn't mean it's all smoking pot and chilling. It's pretty much the opposite. Expect to work much harder than you thought and to be happier than you thought.<br />
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<b>Q: If you could start all over again what would you do differently?</b><br />
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A: I would attend more industry events just to meet people. Always a good time and good networking. :)<br />
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One of the highest viewed blog post on Cashcowcannabis.com was the one about cannabis jobs, <b>this one right here</b>. I decided to dive in a little deeper and find some one in the industry that has expertise in cannabis job hunting. lo and behold I found <a href="https://greenseek.co/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">Greenseek.co</a>. Owned an operated by "anonymous" who we will call Mme Blunt. I was fortunate enough to have Mme Blunt answer a few questions for us newbies...<br />
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Mme Blunt:</strong> Greenseek is a job board exclusive to the medical and legal marijuana industries. Professionals interested in marijuana jobs can submit their resumes into our database for employers to reach. We empower employment in one of America's fastest growing industries, and clients rely on Greenseek's strategic solutions and marketing to attract and hire top talent.</div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Mme. Blunt: </strong>Many people still don't know about the very normal jobs that exist in the marijuana industry, skills can range from sales and marketing, to growing and Budtending, anyone starting college can direct a variety of different skills and knowledge towards a marijuana career. That's what makes this so exciting, marijuana is becoming a commercialized industry, these new job types have become necessary for companies and employers, in order to scale their business with the markets growth. For college students who are specifically interested in growing, should definitely look into agriculture or botany degrees. Students should also check if their University offers any Marijuana courses, some colleges that do are Boston University, Stanford University, Texas A&M and other colleges across the nation. Truthfully, it's most important for job seekers to learn about the state they want to work in and stay informed with regulations, laws and licensing. Some states require badges or licenses for people to work in the industry, and not every company or dispensary requires the same training and certification. If a job seeker shows an employer that they have been proactive with required certificates and licensing, it will give them a strong advantage. </div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Mme Blunt: </strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">This is a pretty unique industry to be working in, we obviously all have our competitors but overall, everyone is willing to help and wants to work together to continue building the industry. There hasn’t been one single event that led to growth, but support from the community and direction from industry leaders has helped Greenseek quickly move forward.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Mme Blunt: </strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">I read a lot of tech and marketing blogs, but within the marijuana industry I am a big fan of Leafly’s blog, The Weed Blog, TheStreet.com, NORML, and the MPP’s site. An issue I’ve come across is the amount of opinions circulating this industry rather than cited news and data. I feel like the blogs above do a really good job at staying fresh on industry news and happenings while providing factual statements and data with cited work.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Mme Blunt: </strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">I have employees in Denver, Boulder, and Boston so we try to attend the events in the locations we can reach, and we are all members of networking organizations. Twitter is huge, I’ve met a lot of people over twitter, everyone is responsive and always willing to chat about the latest in the industry.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Mme Blunt: </strong><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">You need to read and stay informed, with the laws and regulations changing and the sensitivity with this industry, you need to know what’s going on throughout the nation regarding marijuana. Not only will you be protecting yourself but you’ll be able to target your outreach and marketing efforts based on industry transitions.</span></div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Mme Blunt:</strong> Primarily we use Slack and Google Docs, as well as a few sales tools that help keep things in order. </div>
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like any job you need to be informed and quick on your feet. From talking with Mme Blunt we need to read up on the regulations and network like crazy. The best part about it is that everyone wants this industry to grow so there will be no shortage of help on your career journey. For more assistance visit <a data-cke-saved-href="https://greenseek.co/" href="https://greenseek.co/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">greenseek.co</a> now!</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">For those of you new to investing Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) is a pool of investments (stocks, bonds, commodities) that you can buy and sell throughout the trading day. Please, any one correct me if I'm wrong.</span><br />
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I was reading a Bloomberg article from June 2015 where it was saying there just isn't enough liquidity or size for an ETF yet, which sucks big time. It's time to start investing in those companies that are making strides in the cannabis industry. They are making the huge risks right now so that others can succeed, but you go first.</div>
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Here's the article in case you want to read it: <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-30/dude-where-s-my-pot-etf-" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">Dude Where's My Pot ETF</a></div>
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What I loved about the article was the suggestion of investing in related industries or companies that are already established. This should be simple, just think of what stoners do already. When a stoner is at an all time high they eat a lot so we got the food industry ETFs to look out for. Stoners also like their different types of strains so companies that are discovering new cannabis strains are probably going to increase and what do they need? equipment. So there are most likely hydroponic stocks out there. And the best thing to do high is watch some kick ass movies on Netflix which coincidentally is traded on the stock exchange! </div>
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This is such a fun way to pick ETFs, you can almost make a Mind Map out of it! Here's mine</div>
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Now I have a couple ETFs I can research and possibly invest in. I'm not invested in any of the mentioned stocks or ETFs by the way. I believe I have to say that in order to not get in any trouble.</div>
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So If I were a betting man I would say the 2 ETFs would be looking pretty good in the next few years once cannabis laws start changing.</div>
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<strong style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Disclaimer:</strong> For god sakes always talk to a professional before making any investment decisions. Don't be crazy and don't be stupid, investing is serious business. The above article is the ramblings of an amateur investor who does not give advice. </div>
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The Weed Blog: <a href="http://www.theweedblog.com/how-to-get-a-job-in-the-legal-marijuana-industry/" style="color: #121212; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">How To Get A Job In The Legal Marijuana Industry</a></h3>
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Almost every job you can think of outside of the marijuana industry can also be found inside of the industry these days. There is a growing need for accountants, marketers, ad sales staff, graphic designers, web developers, software engineers,</div>
<a name='more'></a> and many other professional jobs that most people don’t associate with the marijuana industry...<a href="http://www.theweedblog.com/how-to-get-a-job-in-the-legal-marijuana-industry/" style="color: #007fff; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">click here to read more</a><br />
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