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How Meadow Is Building a Company and Community Around Cannabis

by hua on 4/7/16, 8:28 PM with 43 comments

  • by Animats on 4/8/16, 1:37 AM

    The DEA is now looking into moving marijuana off schedule I. That would make it a regular prescription drug, with regular prescriptions, distribution through pharmacies, and insurance coverage. If that happens, the whole "dispensary" business will collapse.

  • by anonbanker on 4/8/16, 6:57 PM

    They're selling for twice what we're[0] selling for in Winnipeg. More than twice, if you count for the exchange rate. Marijuana is decriminalized in Canada right now (Allard v. Canada, 2015[1], R. v. Parker, 2000[3]).

    If you guys were in Canada, I'd be terrified right now. Thankfully, this blue ocean is undisturbed by the ycombinator fish thus far.

    Post April 21st, when the UN convenes, and Canada/Mexico pull-out/renegotiate three of their treaties, the U.S. might be pulled in as a result, and Obama can quietly brag about Marijuana being legalized under his administration (and he doesn't have to take credit!)

    0. http://medicalcannab.is

    1. http://www.canlii.org/en/ca/fct/doc/2016/2016fc236/2016fc236...

    2. http://www.canlii.org/en/on/onca/doc/2000/2000canlii5762/200... [210]

  • by touchofevil on 4/8/16, 12:24 AM

    The Meadow team seems to be doing a great job. getMeadow.com is really well done and their move into dispensary inventory management software and a POS system is impressive. I have been following them closely and I was wondering if their move into inventory management might have been due to dispensaries not being that interested in a grubhub style ordering service. I am curious about this because I have been working on a "grubhub for cannabis" site of my own and I have found dispensary interest in this SaaS product to be tepid.

  • by blackguardx on 4/8/16, 12:29 AM

    I wonder what kind of regulations exist for Meadow. When I opened up a business (not marijuana related) bank account in Colorado, they only had one question: "Is this a marijuana business?"

  • by adnam on 4/8/16, 9:52 AM

    I know it's an unpopular view here, but I hope Meadow fails and that the tide of opinion turns against marijuana legalisation and the Big Dope lobby.