Maybe that is why the forced the latest update?
Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade
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Re: Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade
#102Gives a whole new meaning to Cloud Computing.
Re: Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade
#103Good. Maybe they can open a cafe on their campus to sell recreational versions so their people can test their tech and try the product. It'd make many developers I know want to work for Microsoft.
There's a weed store about 4 blocks from the Lincoln Square and City Center (Microsoft) buildings in Bellevue. Or so I've heard.
Green Theory: https://www.yelp.com/biz/green-theory-bellevue
Re: Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade
#104There is no legal marijuana trade in the US, as all marijuana trade is criminal under federal law, and it's generally a crime to knowingly profit from a crime (and, since drug offenses are covered in RICO, it's another crime to use any profits tired to them in the operation of any business engaged in interstate commerce.) Microsoft may be keeping distant enough not to worry (though perhaps not given their formal part…
> as all marijuana trade is criminal under federal law You may be right because of the word trade ; however, the Federal government itself has authorized the growing (University of Mississippi) and interstate distribution of legal marijuana since 1976 through CIND. Not trying to split hairs, because the total patient list has probably always been under a dozen people, but it is still an interesting fact and one I onl…
It was my understanding that the farm at University of Mississippi also provided the majority of the marijuana products for laboratory testing in the US.
Re: Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade
#105This makes sense. As a big player in enterprise, Microsoft is recognizing that there's a new industry that's vastly under served.
Microsoft might be the first to publicly announce it, but I don't think they are the only blue chip company aware of the industry. I've heard Phillip-Morris has been quietly buying out a lot of farms, anticipating federal legalization in the near future, especially since tobacco usage in the US is plummeting.
Re: Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade
#106There is no legal marijuana trade in the US, as all marijuana trade is criminal under federal law, and it's generally a crime to knowingly profit from a crime (and, since drug offenses are covered in RICO, it's another crime to use any profits tired to them in the operation of any business engaged in interstate commerce.) Microsoft may be keeping distant enough not to worry (though perhaps not given their formal part…
There is no legal marijuana trade in the US, You mean interstate trade, of course.
I thought that since you can nearly always draw a connection between almost any economic activity and stove kind of effect on interstate commerce, the commerce clause isn't much of a restriction these days?
Re: Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
The IRS explicitly states that you need to declare bribes and income from illegal activities [1] "Illegal activities. Income from illegal activities, such as money from dealing illegal drugs, must be included in your income on Form 1040, line 21, or on Schedule C or Schedule C-EZ (Form 1040) if from your self-employment activity." [1] https://www.irs.gov/publications/p17/ch12.html
That's just hilarious! Are you saying drug dealers actually report their income and pay taxes off it?
Once drug dealers get caught, they have to pay back taxes (I saw that in a movie)
Re: Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade
#108This makes sense. As a big player in enterprise, Microsoft is recognizing that there's a new industry that's vastly under served.
Microsoft might be the first to publicly announce it, but I don't think they are the only blue chip company aware of the industry. I've heard Phillip-Morris has been quietly buying out a lot of farms, anticipating federal legalization in the near future, especially since tobacco usage in the US is plummeting.
Do you have any source on that? The only reason I ask is I've heard that rumor many times over the years. In particular I had a civics teach in high school tell me how as a student he had gone on a tour of a Phillip-Morris (or some major tobacco company) facility and supposedly was told that they were amassing equipment to make Marijuana cigarettes because they thought it was going to be legal in a few years. Seeing how the man was in his late 50s that story has been going around for a while.
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#109Wow Microsoft is tickin' all the cool boxes under Nadella. Never seen such a radical, and it seems, effective, corpo image turnaround. Open source? Check. Ubuntu on Windows? Check. Contribute to BSD? Check. Progressive on pot? Check. Defeat the bots? Check. Gates on chickens? Check. This company is sick/dope/ice cold cool.
Getting ratchet with the times
In case it wasn't intentional, that's not really what ratchet means. A close approximation would be trashy.
Re: Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a weed store about 4 blocks from the Lincoln Square and City Center (Microsoft) buildings in Bellevue. Or so I've heard.
There's a weed store about 4 blocks from any given point in Washington state.
There are actually regulations limiting the number of stores and their placement in relation to other public buildings like schools.