Toke 1: Microsoft moves into Legal Weed bizness

[laserhaas]

According to 'The Next Web' report that was posted 22 hours agovyesterday ( too late for LBN) - as per the title"Microsoft is getting into legal weed business".

WOW!

Specifically, the article quotes Microsoft that:

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The goal of this relationship is to leverage each company’s resources to provide State, County, and Municipalities with purpose built solutions for track and trace (‘seed to sale’ in the cannabis industry) technology,” Kind said in the statement"

The article concludes:

It's one of the most tightly-regulated in the country, it’s mostly devoid of investment funds and it still resides in a sort of government-created purgatory as states (where it’s legal) fight against the federal government (where it’s not).

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	Be who you are have a toke, or don't
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	This is long overdue
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	Meducal Marijuana has so many good uses
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	Weed can do so many other things like Christmas logs
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	I'm buying Microsoft stock
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	Grocery & Snack Food stocks are going to skyrocket
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[Cooley Hurd]

1. This is mainstreaming not JUST MM, but legalization in general!

THIS is a very good thing!!!!!

On edit: I survived WinME and Vista - they were definitely smoking something else, like crack, then.

[laserhaas]

2. Yup...But I heard (long ago) U.S. Gov owns patent on Weed

And that's how the made it legal...long ago

[Cooley Hurd]

3. Patents? I don't need no stinking patents!

It's like they have a *patent* on dandelions... which grow EVERYWHERE (much to my mowing chagrin in the spring ).

[laserhaas]

5. Ha Ha

[REP]

4. Great. Now weed will cost 10x as much and won't work.

[laserhaas]

6. Me thinks otherwise

MS just opened the flood gates for investing

As competition meets demand..product quality will vary

As will price

[TreasonousBastard]

7. Wake me up when they get into the legal gun business.

[scscholar]

8. It's still illegal...

so I don't understand why they think they can get away with this. They're ignoring the law yet again.