Hemp can’t get you high, but it can get high-tech

Published October 27, 2016

Wall made of hempcrete and logs in Saranac, Michigan. Hempcrete is a building product made from hemp hurds, lime and water with no mortar or chemical additives. This wall was constructed on the first site featuring a hempcrete building in the midwest. (Photo: Getty Images/Rick Thompson) Marijuana is an ancient plant with borderline mystical properties — just ask the 266 million people who smoke it every year. Hemp, the industrial strain of Cannabis sativa, has been used for many purposes — food, fuel and textiles among them — for tens of thousands of years. Unlike its sister strain, hemp can’t get you high. But much like the drug, it has… Read More

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Confident Cannabis is the stock exchange of weed

Published June 15, 2016

Man holing Cannabis plant. Step 1: Build software for pot labs. Step 2: Find out who has the strongest herb. Step 3: Create a marijuana marketplace connecting dispensaries with the best growers. That’s the plan that scored $3 million in seed funding led by Slow Ventures for Confident Cannabis. Right now it’s on Step 2, having established the largest real-time database of cannabis in the world just nine… Read More

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Tripping.com sees non-hotel lodgings draw “420-friendly” travelers

Published April 21, 2016

photo by Katherine Hitt A search engine that lets travelers find and book a stay in non-hotel lodgings, Tripping.com, has detected a burgeoning “budbnb” trend in Colorado. San Francisco-based Tripping.com aggregates vacation rental listings from the likes of HomeAway, Booking.com, VRBO and other sites, and shows travelers the best prices on available lodgings. It currently lists about 8 million… Read More

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Marijuana deliverer Meadow rolls up $2.1M for dispensary sales software

Published April 5, 2016

Meadow Feature Meadow already lets you get a prescription for medical marijuana over video chat and order from a nearby shop that delivers. Now it wants to be the backbone of the weed business, too. Pot dispensaries can’t use standard point-of-sale or inventory software because they aren’t compliant with the industry’s strict regulations. So over the last year, since graduating Y… Read More

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Canary Launches To Bring The Uber Experience To Medicinal Marijuana

Published January 10, 2015

pot Pot is great.
Having pot delivered to you, Uber-style, legally, is even better. Canary (not to be confused with the home security system) has launched in Seattle to do just that. Read More

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WeedMaps Partners With Uber So You Don’t 420BlazeIt And Drive

Published August 13, 2014

Half-Baked Car Dude, where’s my car? Back in the garage because you took an Uber rather than driving high. At least that’s the idea behind leading “Yelp for marijuana” service WeedMaps and Colorado pot shop The Clinic partnering with Uber. Each time a new rider enters the promo code “clinicms”, Uber will donate $5 to multiple sclerosis research though the end of year.… Read More

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