Delivering Medicinal Marijuana by Drone

Trees, a California-based medical marijuana distributor, recently has proposed the idea of delivering marijuana kits by air. An idea that certainly is novel and could end up being one that innovates the industry as it becomes more commercialized. The company currently only serves the San Francisco Bay area and accepts Bitcoin as well as more traditional forms of payment through online bank transfers, cash, and credit cards. Marijuana for recreational use is illegal in California, and thus only accepts purchases from people holding medical recommendations by certified doctors. In order to....

Medicinal Genomics, which registers marijuana strains on the blockchain, has set off a race among growers to sequence and register their strains, according to Motherboard. Medicinal Genomics’ goal is to standardize strain nomenclature so that customers can know what they’re getting when they buy medical marijuana, while also defending the intellectual property rights of those who breed new cannabis strains. In addition to testing plants to check for microbial contamination and determine cannabinoid content to help cultivators meet state regulations, Medicinal Genomics also provides growers....

A company near San Francisco has come up with a novel way to deliver bitcoin-purchased marijuana, via drone. Trees, which claims to sell the "highest quality" medicinal cannabis to people holding a medical recommendation, accepts payments in bitcoin alongside traditional payment methods such as cash, online bank transfer and credit cards. A spokesperson for the company confirmed that drone deliveries were not currently available, due to local regulations. The drone delivery option, the spokesperson said, would be rolled-out in the future if and when the regulation around the flying devices....

With marijuana legalized in most of the US states, weed farmers are getting their strains tested with Medicinal Genomics and getting the results added to a blockchain registry. The use of blockchain technology in intellectual property rights management is a well-known application. There are plenty of startups and established companies working on creating platforms for patents and copyrights management using distributed ledger technology. While the cryptocurrency platforms anticipated the music and film industry to be their leading customer, marijuana growers in the United States have....

At least one marijuana dispensary in Colorado has reportedly begun accepting bitcoin. Colorado's decision to legalize cannabis has been filling headlines for weeks, and the hype is still going strong. Investors have been piling up in the marijuana market, ranging from reputable medicinal marijuana companies to highly speculative penny stocks. The general public seems to be very interested indeed - outside some dispensaries the queues of pot lovers are incredibly large, resembling the lines frequently formed in front of Apple Stores following an iPhone launch. However, there are a number of....