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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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Post by owebmaster »

mmanfrin wrote: post #30
aphextron wrote: post #15

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.

I'm going to quibble about your word choice. There is something disturbing about the fact that people are still rotting in jail , not that Ease raised money. Those people should not be in jail, and eaze is doing well to raise money. The former does not make the latter disturbing.

> Those people should not be in jail, and eaze is doing well to raise money. The former does not make the latter disturbing.

Yes, it does. Priorities are disturbing. This doesn't happen by chance.

Re: Eaze, cannabis delivery company, raises 27M

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Post by 40acres »

It's a bit surprising to see that they've raised so much. Given that Eaze is only available in California and they will need a very local approach to deal with city by city and state by state regulations which have slight differences.

I can definitely see an Uber/Lyft dynamic emerge in the marijuana delivery space.

Re: Eaze, cannabis delivery company, raises 27M

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Post by sremani »

Can the VC be implicated for financing distribution of controlled substances ? There could be enough grounds for Banks to terminating their relationship with Bailey Capital et al. Why would a venture capital firm expose themselves to this, when its not even legal in half of the country?

Re: Eaze, cannabis delivery company, raises 27M

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Post by code_duck »

htormey wrote: post #25
code_duck wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

In the case of eaze, marijuana is not legal federally so you can’t use traditional postage or banks that cross state lines.

Similarly, nobody would ever ship a pizza interstate or really more than about an hour away. In the short term, I suspect cannabis will work similarly, for legal reasons as well as practicality.

In some places you can get alcohol delivered, and others, you cannot. I'm sure that as time goes on, and with federal legalization, restrictions will ease on shipping cannabis.

One thing to note is that the black market uses mail to transport cannabis in a major way… Not just the darknet vendors, but many other people. They even make rap songs about it. Home delivery of cannabis has long been popular in dense urban markets such as New York City and San Francisco, also.

Re: Eaze, cannabis delivery company, raises 27M

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Post by philfrasty »

I wonder if the increasing cannabis accessibility leads to an increase in smoking? Lots of friends of mine never smoked but started „smoking“ cannabis, usually combined with tobacco (vapors not used once). Kind of a sad development in my opinion when lots of countries are pushing hard for a smokefree life.

Re: Eaze, cannabis delivery company, raises 27M

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Post by taheca »

ryen wrote: post #20
chrshawkes wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I think that this is true, but didn't Obama have a massive wave of Pardons of people like this before he left office?
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