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Re: Show HN: Meadow – Medical cannabis delivered to your door

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Post by ASneakyFox »

sv123 wrote: post #17
RIMR wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, as a WA resident, I promise you, nobody follows those rules. There are MMJ delivery companies everywhere; some even deliver recreational pot. EDIT: recreational

The recreational deliveries are not long for this world, unlicensed, untracked, breaking all the i502 rules. Just dealers with balls to freely advertise.

Not too different from medical pot dealers. All pot is for recreational use. The medical thing is just easing the subject into politics and law.

Re: Show HN: Meadow – Medical cannabis delivered to your door

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Post by jcrites »

lmg643 wrote: post #35

I am mostly surprised that we have an "uber for XYZ" cropping up, as opposed to a general-purpose delivery service winning out, like postmates. this makes me think - perhaps most of the value in the delivery service is the catalog of specific goods you want, and less so how they will actually get it to you. for example - sure postmates could deliver medical marijuana, but perhaps not the exact strain you prefer to tr…

Postmates is a great delivery service, but at least in Seattle they cannot handle certain types of special deliveries, such as the delivery of alcohol or tobacco. It was explained to me as a licensing issue. For similar reasons I doubt they'd be willing or able to handle cannabis at the moment.

I could imagine this changing in the future. I heard that Postmates can deliver alcohol in California; and Amazon Fresh can deliver alcohol today in Seattle. But I suspect there would be many barriers to overcome for cannabis delivery (assuming it can be done lawfully at all).

Re: Show HN: Meadow – Medical cannabis delivered to your door

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Post by fit2rule »

jsonmetaschema wrote: post #37
maroonblazer wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ditto for the actual product names. Selling a strain of cannabis with the name "Girl Scout Cookies" will do little to help earn the tolerance of anyone who might be on the fence about the legality of cannabis. I recognize getmeadow doesn't name the product, so they're limited in how they can effect this. It's something the category needs to address though.

Not to mention Green Crack and Alaskan Thunder Fuck. Strain names are all behind closed doors where sellers aren't trying to convince anybody of anything.

This could well be a weak backdoor in the whole attempt to gain legitimacy, though, because .. after all .. if you're describing the effects of various strains in an interview of the patient, guiding them towards a preferred result .. aren't you practicing medicine in that regard? Are dispensaries allowed to do that? (I am truly ignorant.)

Re: Show HN: Meadow – Medical cannabis delivered to your door

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Post by notastartup »

sv123 wrote: post #36
notastartup wrote: post #28

sigh. we don't have anything like this in vancouver, BC. supposedly the chest thumping and shouting BC BUD now seems embarassing.

You guys have MMPR though, online ordering, credit card payment, overnight shipping. Would take that any day over dealing with cash and a delivery guy coming to my house.

this is news to me.

Re: Show HN: Meadow – Medical cannabis delivered to your door

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Post by sv123 »

notastartup wrote: post #44
sv123 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You guys have MMPR though, online ordering, credit card payment, overnight shipping. Would take that any day over dealing with cash and a delivery guy coming to my house.

this is news to me.

http://www.leafly.com/knowledge-center/canada/the-mmpr-and-y...
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