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Eaze, cannabis delivery company, raises 27M

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Re: Eaze, cannabis delivery company, raises 27M

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I hope they can invest at least some of this money into 5 minute drone deliveries.

Marijuana delivery by drone is already illegal or will be in the next 5 minutes. (Which is too bad because it is a very elegant solution.)

There was a news article earlier this week IIRC that California banned marijuana delivery by drone.

Re: Eaze, cannabis delivery company, raises 27M

#12
post #4

Maybe I'm missing something, but why are X delivery companies a thing? Why not have just a delivery company? This is a case where I can't even think of any special handling being required, but I wouldn't be a customer so may be ignorant to something.

Nobody's going to jump a Postmates delivery guy for your takeout. A marijuana delivery guy rolling around with a significant amount of high-value product might.

Depends where and how they appear. In SF there are quite a lot of services that do this per dispensary, and I doubt they wear anything that signals to theives what they are carrying, and if they do I doubt it'll lead to that a majority of the time.

Re: Eaze, cannabis delivery company, raises 27M

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post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Marijuana delivery by drone is already illegal or will be in the next 5 minutes. (Which is too bad because it is a very elegant solution.)

High value, light weight. Sounds perfect. Customers would appreciate the Wow factor too.

Sounds perfect for intercepting!

Re: Eaze, cannabis delivery company, raises 27M

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post #4

Maybe I'm missing something, but why are X delivery companies a thing? Why not have just a delivery company? This is a case where I can't even think of any special handling being required, but I wouldn't be a customer so may be ignorant to something.

Of course… Many types of delivery companies already exists for specific needs. Shipping companies like UPS or the post office aren't going to bring you a pizza or deliver a shed into your backyard.

I see distinction between what I consider shipping and delivery (UPS, Fedex vs Postmates, Grubhub). But UPS/Fedex doesn't care (within laws) what you are shipping. It's not like you can be the Fedex of Birthday cards, that makes no sense but it's exactly what is happening in the delivery world.

Maybe this is natural as consumers are getting used to on demand delivery so companies need to focus on something and be known for it. But, eventually I'd expect to just have one app where I could get anything delivered without having to use app A for groceries and app B for restaurants and...

Re: Eaze, cannabis delivery company, raises 27M

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post #6

I hope they can invest at least some of this money into 5 minute drone deliveries.

Marijuana delivery by drone is already illegal or will be in the next 5 minutes. (Which is too bad because it is a very elegant solution.)

Too loud.

Re: Eaze, cannabis delivery company, raises 27M

#17
post #4

Maybe I'm missing something, but why are X delivery companies a thing? Why not have just a delivery company? This is a case where I can't even think of any special handling being required, but I wouldn't be a customer so may be ignorant to something.

Believe it or not, marijuana has significant medical use, and a lot of its potential patients are mobility impaired.

Re: Eaze, cannabis delivery company, raises 27M

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There's something really disturbing about this given the fact that people are still rotting in jail in this country for selling a dime bag in the 90's. The time for federal prohibition to come to an end is far overdue.

Is that exaggerated or do you really have confirmation of somebody serving time in prison for minor pot dealings? I would be willing to be most serving time in prisons for pot were moving quite a bit of product, which would still be illegal even in legalized pot states today.

Re: Eaze, cannabis delivery company, raises 27M

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post #4

Maybe I'm missing something, but why are X delivery companies a thing? Why not have just a delivery company? This is a case where I can't even think of any special handling being required, but I wouldn't be a customer so may be ignorant to something.

Believe it or not, marijuana has significant medical use, and a lot of its potential patients are mobility impaired.

Not sure I really buy this reasoning for the rise in cannabis startups; if you follow the logic, it should bring you to "prescription drug delivery" pretty quickly, and yet the focus is all on weed.

Re: Eaze, cannabis delivery company, raises 27M

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There's something really disturbing about this given the fact that people are still rotting in jail in this country for selling a dime bag in the 90's. The time for federal prohibition to come to an end is far overdue.

Is that exaggerated or do you really have confirmation of somebody serving time in prison for minor pot dealings? I would be willing to be most serving time in prisons for pot were moving quite a bit of product, which would still be illegal even in legalized pot states today.

There are many cases of extended time served for small personal amounts of marijuana. Especially after "tough on crime" effort and 3-strikes laws that permeated throughout the country starting in the 90s. Obama vacated many federal sentences before his term ended, but that didn't cover prisoners in state and county prisons.

Plenty of press and articles around this over the past few years.

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