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Re: Medical cannabis patient data exposed by unsecured database

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Post by amy_petrik »

recursive wrote: post #25
firefax wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More evidence cannabis needs to be recreational. We can let people use their FSA money for it and/or give a steep discount to people who "really" need it, like cancer patients... but I think a lot of people who bounce between Anyways, there are a LOT of little fly by night outfits that "help" you get a medical card in many states. It's a joke, and all it does is empower the same type of person who used to be a pill d…

This seems totally unrelated to whether cannabis should be recreational. If my insurance company leaked my PHI, that would certainly not be evidence that any of my prescriptions should be OTC.

I mean... if you ask me prescriptions for things like cholesterol or blood pressure should be OTC, benefit outweighs the risk. Nobody is getting high off statins. Imagine how much that would save our healthcare system. Insulin is the one dubious thing because it can be very deadly if misused... and it IS in fact OTC because it can be deadly if unavailable, benefit outweighs the risk.

Re: Medical cannabis patient data exposed by unsecured database

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Post by yieldcrv »

eszed wrote: post #50
yieldcrv wrote: post #37

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you understand it but one thing you’re missing is that people dont know which ones will be money laundered - or attract gobs of capital for unknown reasons - and go up in price wildly. so people play at all levels depending on their risk appetite since the profits from a coin being pumped are so wild. these things launch with a marketcap in the low thousands, and run to marketcaps in the millions and billions for ten…

Ah! It's penny stocks, then. My grandfather lost a ton of money "investing" in those, over the years - but his occasional hits, generally when he happened to piggyback a pump scheme (a gold mine scam in Papua New Guinea particularly sticks out), more than made up for it, at least to him.

Yep

In fact its more like every unincorporated idea and general partnership and incorporated business all thrusted into visibility and publicly traded status all at once, right along side private equity backed corporations and ones that have actual institutional underwriters and IPO’d, issued and trading 24/7/365 with no circuit breakers or halts of any kind!

If the respected traditional market didnt have its layers of filtering via syndicates and the exchanges, it would look just as scammy

you can filter for stronger crypto projects, more consumers and investors simply need to, and crypto skeptics need to become more discerning to levy a more equivalent standard

Re: Medical cannabis patient data exposed by unsecured database

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Post by yieldcrv »

aspenmayer wrote: post #49
yieldcrv wrote: post #44

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No rebuttals there I think the previously hostile regulatory environment has caused a lot of innovation, that is more resilient and useful for capital formation, new sectors, industries. the cryptosecurities market in 2012 was really ghetto, the ICO market in 2017 was baaaad but working around securities regulations since registration+liquidity was impossible. 2024’s pump.fun should be for entertainment only, but it…

I didn’t mean to conflate what Uniswap does with what pump.fun does, but I understand that Uniswap is a decentralized exchange whereas pump.fun is a launchpad, which is a basically crypto contract templating? I don’t know how to explain it abstractly but I think the liquidity pools that Uniswap and others pioneered has created a really neat community. Like the thnickles guy, for example. Good old weird internet salt…

All good, I wouldnt say conflating, they both use bonding curves that Uniswap pioneered

For the uninitiated:

Uniswap’s liquidity pool concept changed crypto forever and there are infinite code branches from that at this point. Pump.fun is a homegrown version of the same blueprint, with scripted automation and gamification built on top of it.

What used to be separate processes and cost teams tens of thousands of dollars to code and review (creating a token, getting it audited), is now rolled into a click of a button for pennies free.

Pump fun creates your token, fills it in a liquidity pool, initiates the initial purchases for price discovery, and locks the dev into a game where the it stays in the pump fun smart contract until the token hits a certain marketcap, then it transfers the liquidity pool (which is a bearer asset itself) into a more open trading smart contract called Raydium. This is an important goal because people provide liquidity with their own capital to raydium liquidity pools, increasing the collective respect and liquidity depth. These marker makers earn basis points from trades through the liquidity pool. (I so wish this was available on the stock market, coming soon I hope). Pumpfun keeps all their trade volume earnings to themselves.

Look at how much pump fun has earned over the past year. Launchpads are lucrative.

Re: Medical cannabis patient data exposed by unsecured database

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Post by aspenmayer »

yieldcrv wrote: post #53
aspenmayer wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn’t mean to conflate what Uniswap does with what pump.fun does, but I understand that Uniswap is a decentralized exchange whereas pump.fun is a launchpad, which is a basically crypto contract templating? I don’t know how to explain it abstractly but I think the liquidity pools that Uniswap and others pioneered has created a really neat community. Like the thnickles guy, for example. Good old weird internet salt…

All good, I wouldnt say conflating, they both use bonding curves that Uniswap pioneered For the uninitiated: Uniswap’s liquidity pool concept changed crypto forever and there are infinite code branches from that at this point. Pump.fun is a homegrown version of the same blueprint, with scripted automation and gamification built on top of it. What used to be separate processes and cost teams tens of thousands of dolla…

Have you followed what Robinhood is doing? They were tokenizing private shares of OpenAI and others, way before most private investors would have access to these shares. That allowed Robinhood to also fractionalize them.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/02/openai-robinhood-tokens.html

They also are doing a lot of stuff with prediction markets, which is pretty interesting even if I think the issue there is one of deferring trust to an oracle, but that’s kind of the gambit with most gambles, so it sort of comes with the territory. I think there have been some bad calls by oracles there, and I think there’s a brand risk to Robinhood if RH users identify strongly with the RH brand when placing prediction wagers even when they are outsourced to a third party.

https://www.theblock.co/post/367417/robinhood-launching-spor...

Re: Medical cannabis patient data exposed by unsecured database

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Post by carlmr »

kjkjadksj wrote: post #46
Krssst wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Despite some of the discourse there are some long term side-effects (though it seems mostly especially bad for adolescents where stopping consumption does not revert the impact on cognitive function): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_effects_of_cannabi... Then it's a societal choice between the benefits of easier access to it for medical use (non-OTC drugs are harder to get when you need them) plus lower bur…

Cannabis is widely used today. Half of US adults have smoked it at one point of their life. 20% regularly smoke it. We are at the point where more people use it than alcohol in the US.

>We are at the point where more people use it than alcohol in the US.

Citation needed on that one.

Re: Medical cannabis patient data exposed by unsecured database

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Post by metalman »

firefax wrote: post #11
0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #10

Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovered and reported to Website Planet about an unencrypted and non-password-protected database that contained 957,434 records. The database belongs to an Ohio-based organization that helps individuals obtain physician‑certified medical marijuana cards. The database held PII, drivers licenses, medical records, documents containing SSNs, and other internal potentially sens…

More evidence cannabis needs to be recreational. We can let people use their FSA money for it and/or give a steep discount to people who "really" need it, like cancer patients... but I think a lot of people who bounce between Anyways, there are a LOT of little fly by night outfits that "help" you get a medical card in many states. It's a joke, and all it does is empower the same type of person who used to be a pill d…

ya, here in Canada(caniba), nobody much cared what someone smoked or why, as long as they did it down wind and out of sight since forever, and I have heard irrate little ones admonishing adults "your not supposed to do that around us!" and grown adults eye rolling and moving off....now there are certain parks for the weed heads, and various semi legal stores and some government weed outlets, but as it's not called weed for nothing, millions grow the little they want for personal use, and for people wanting it for medical reasons, there is a vast network of people helping people. We went through the whole "certified medical canabis" thing, and it collapsed under overwhelming demand, and the impossibility of scaling the management, where the police and courts flat out refused to try and untangle the "legitimate" and "unligitimate", and we are back to what it was in the past with an informal understanding of ....go down wind and out of sight of the kids,thank you

Re: Medical cannabis patient data exposed by unsecured database

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Post by Krssst »

kjkjadksj wrote: post #46
Krssst wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Despite some of the discourse there are some long term side-effects (though it seems mostly especially bad for adolescents where stopping consumption does not revert the impact on cognitive function): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_effects_of_cannabi... Then it's a societal choice between the benefits of easier access to it for medical use (non-OTC drugs are harder to get when you need them) plus lower bur…

Cannabis is widely used today. Half of US adults have smoked it at one point of their life. 20% regularly smoke it. We are at the point where more people use it than alcohol in the US.

From the standpoint of "hard to ban what's used by a large part of the population" this does justify legalization indeed.

I don't have strong opinions on this, I was mostly a bit triggered by the parent's comment weird theory that "cannabis was only forbidden because of criminal big pharma". (I assumed "only reason" implied that they thought it was a safe drug without side-effects or risks; all (medical/non-medical) drugs have side-effects and risks so not being 100% safe isn't a reason for banning by itself, but that's a factor in the risk/benefit balance).

Re: Medical cannabis patient data exposed by unsecured database

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Post by AlecSchueler »

amy_petrik wrote: post #51
recursive wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This seems totally unrelated to whether cannabis should be recreational. If my insurance company leaked my PHI, that would certainly not be evidence that any of my prescriptions should be OTC.

I mean... if you ask me prescriptions for things like cholesterol or blood pressure should be OTC, benefit outweighs the risk. Nobody is getting high off statins. Imagine how much that would save our healthcare system. Insulin is the one dubious thing because it can be very deadly if misused... and it IS in fact OTC because it can be deadly if unavailable, benefit outweighs the risk.

Insulin is very much not "the one" dubious thing. There are very many things which are prescribed these have abuse potential and which could be deadly if misused.
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