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Re: Show HN: Premium Medical Marijuana Subscription – SF Only

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Post by dpieri »

jack-r-abbit wrote: post #60
dpieri wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Correct. You also have to be there because only the person with the doctor's recommendation can accept the delivery.

That makes sense. And until things improve on the legal front, it seems wise for customers to stay cash-only anyway. I know I do even though the dispensary I use takes credit cards. And I understand the part about too many choices being overwhelming. My dispensary has 30-40 varieties and I often just stand there and stare at the board. But, probably not a service I'd use. I have several convenient choices on my way h…

Thanks for the encouragement!

Re: Show HN: Premium Medical Marijuana Subscription – SF Only

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Post by zaatar »

dpieri wrote: post #3
notastartup wrote: post #2

how difficult is it to become a medial marijuana user in SF? it seems pretty tough in BC with the classic "stress/anxiety disorder".

It's not very hard. In California a doctor can give you a recommendation for any condition for which marijuana may be helpful. This includes things like stress, anxiety, insomnia... I've got with these guys, they have two offices in SF and an online appointment scheduler: http://green215.com

That's cool; what are the repercussions of getting such a card, though? Do you get on TSA's no-fly lists? Are you automatically exempt from holding jobs in the Government? Something else that I'm missing, perhaps?

Re: Show HN: Premium Medical Marijuana Subscription – SF Only

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Post by prawn »

dpieri wrote: post #61
_9hey wrote: post #59

Is this seriously at the top of Hacker News? -_-

We believe that cannabis should be taken as seriously as any other business. Hopefully soon this won't be a topic that people are afraid to bring up in polite company.

Sometimes HN doesn't seem like polite company!

Re: Show HN: Premium Medical Marijuana Subscription – SF Only

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Post by chatmasta »

dpieri wrote: post #21
joelrunyon wrote: post #20

I read somewhere that this is cash-only? How does that work? I feel like this is a perfect use-case for bitcoin.

Yes cash-only for now. We've considered Bitcoin but unfortunately all of the popular Bitcoin payments companies don't work with marijuana businesses.

This is so ironic it's laughable. The entire point of Bitcoin is that its inherent decentralization inhibits regulatory activities like determining which businesses are and are not allowed. Yet the VC-funded ecosystem sprouting up around Bitcoin is so antithetical to its thesis of decentralization that the best tooling available is increasingly more centralized. Put another way, the decentralization of Bitcoin is actively against the interest of many of the companies starting to serve its market. BitPay, Coinbase, etc. are all predicated on the assumption that customers will transact almost entirely through their centralized platforms, foregoing the many benefits of decentralization, in exchange for the convenience of a nice GUI around Bitcoin. At the end of the day, what really is the difference between Bitcoin and credit cards, if the merchants enabling websites to seamlessly accept Bitcoin are just as regulatory as the credit card companies they are seeking to displace?

It just seems so backwards to me. I could write a longer post on this but it's way off topic.

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