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ERP Vendors Get Into Medical Marijuana Business
jfruhlinger writes "As medical marijuana is legalized in more and more states, a new market is emerging for ERP applications that can handle this unique business. Many people running medical marijuana dispenseries aren't used to running legitimate businesses and need technical help doing so. In addition, the drug itself is tricky to keep track of; as one vendor puts it, 'there's no other product that is sold by weight that evaporates, dehydrates and [turns into] shake.'"
Maybe tobacco companies know a thing or two? Bars? Starbucks, even?
I guess we're talking about Enterprise Resource Planning? At least that's the only thing on wikipedia that looked like it made sense.
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In which language does "weight" rhyme with "shake"?
Considering the subject, I'd say it's more like blank verse.
Though I can think of at least two other products that "evaporate(s), dehydrate(s) and [turns into] shake".
Neither of them are particularly good for you.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Is there a SugarCRM module for running a medicinal marijuana biz?
They don't call denver the mile high city for nothing.... Colorado is rocky mountain high.
Uhhh...
Plenty of businesses have to take this sort of thing into account. Look at any food service; they have to constantly calculate their 'food cost' and margin because food they buy doesn't always equal portions served; you sometimes get more or less in a dish, not to mention the stuff the cook dropped on the floor and didn't put back in the bowl, plus what the employees helped themselves to....
I thought stoners were the people who staffed the food service industry. I guess either I was wrong or they were just too high to notice how the business works.
'there's no other product that is sold by weight that evaporates, dehydrates and [turns into] shake.'
The food packaging industry would like a word with you.
Sounds like someone is totally new to agriculture in general. Name any plant that doesn't dry out and get lighter.
I happen to work with a few people who have "The Card". Getting them to fill in the blanks on a CRM is hard enough. The idea of resource management is not even in the picture! The technology won't help this industry. The quality of the product will result in "Right Pricing" and the consumer is already aware...
As in Shake and Bake?
If God forks the Universe every time you roll a die, he'd better have a damned good memory.
Its utter BS to think that any dispensary has product that goes bad over time. It sells very quickly. Only water evaporates and nothing "turns to shake" as the article so ignorantly states. The water weight is already taken into account long before it reaches the shelf or Ball jar.
"... there's no other product that is sold by weight that evaporates, dehydrates and [turns into] shake."
Uh... breakfast cereal? Wait... Well, 2 out of 3 isn't bad.
Shake is a term meaning the useless parts of the marijuana plant. A by product. Stems and seeds basically. There can be different amounts per weight meaning youre not getting the exact same amount of "medicine" per bag. I think that is what was meant by shake in the statement above.
If the weed is dehydrating and turning into shake, it isn't being stored correctly. A dispensary could use much less expensive and more practical means, like some mason jars, to fix that. I really don't see how an ERP system is better than a couple excel sheets and some common sense. Then again that could probably be said for 90% of ERP customers.
Pot has been the largest "off the books" agriculture in America for decades For several states it is the largest cash crop.. It takes a lot to hide that kind of money. I suspect the big growers have ERP systems they could license in competition with Oracle, unless they are just using Oracle's. Ask Larry.
the fact that it's not really legal (since Federal Law trumps state law)? On a side note, there's a goofy song about how easy it is to get medical marijuana, but it occurs to me that's only true if you've got health care. The current system of medical marijuana works great if you're wealthy. You get to smoke all you want, and you still get to call the cops of there's poor people in your neighborhood and have them arrested :(. Based on this I wonder if we'll ever see it made truly legal so long as it's safe for People That Matter...
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Don't know how many times i've asked this question during ERP implementations. At least with these clients you know the answer...
Not if the jackbooted fed shitheads and their Christian lapdogs in the lobbying groups^W^W churches keep trying to fight against what states voted for.
Remember, we fought a war over this before and the federal government won.
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I got the impression that most ERP vendors are smoking something...
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
Interesting to note that the term "ERP" does not appear even once in the body of the article.
It's two pages, run searches on both... it ain't there.
Yes, pun intended, but seriously: many dispensaries are still getting raided by the feds, who take their computers and customer lists. Maybe a cloud-based ERP solution would be a good way to get around this, assuming you could crypto the fuck out of it. Just figure out how to remember the password before you toke up, and don't write the password down on rolling papers.
The last new development I'm aware of came from academia in the '70s, when it was discovered that 12 inch ZZ Top album covers provided the best color contrast and audio background for sorting out seeds.
ight, ake and ate are all very similar and can be happily rhymed,
But i am sure you will disagree and respond in due time
the weight of the shake got me baked - dehydrate!
you know how to rhyme right? You just didnt want the limelight? i agree, best stay outta sight!
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What does Erotic Role Play have to do with medical marijuana?
Not if the jackbooted fed shitheads and their Christian lapdogs in the lobbying groups^W^W churches keep trying to fight against what states voted for.
Remember, we fought a war over this before and the federal government won.
To register for medical marijuana is to register for a federal DEA bust while the CIA brings cocaine and heroin into the country with impunity.
The mind conceives, the body achieves, the spirit manifests.
As in Shake and Bake?
As in Wake and Bake. FTFY.
The mind conceives, the body achieves, the spirit manifests.
It is a CRM/POS that uses PHP/MySQL and it is apparently open-source!
It's a slant rhyme (aka a half rhyme).
It's already been done...
Dope Wars
Regards, Lex
Many people running medical marijuana dispensaries aren't used to running legitimate businesses.
Right. We'd be better off if the stuff was just made a class II or III prescription drug and dispensed at real pharmacies. Some people have a medical need for it, but nowhere as many as the number of people wanting it.
Having lived near San Francisco for years, I'm not impressed with the stoner community. There are way too many burnout cases on the streets.
It is also complete nonsense.
Evaporation is a serious factor in the aging of Whiskey. The so calledAngel's share.
So whiskey may be sold by volume, but the effect is the same.
HAN: Aren't you afraid the Empire's going to find out about this little operation and shut you down?
LANDO: That's always been a danger looming like a shadow over everything we've built here. But things have developed that will insure security. I've just made a deal that will keep the Empire out of here forever.
Speaking of evaporation, I used to work on a custom bill-of-material system for radiopharmaceuticals. We couldn't use an off-the-shelf system, because the active ingredients have short lifetimes. That meant that we had to track the precise age of the product in order to calculate the proper doses. For example, iodine-131's half-life is roughly 8 days, which means you lose 8% of your product a day, while technetium-99m's is a scant 6 hours, meaning you lose 12% every hour.
Nothing for 6-digit uids?
... of vacuum sealing? Whiners.
why isn't it just sold in drugstores?
another matter, why isnt it sold as THC tablet/or just as a resin?
Right, because once things change, they can never go back. Ever. We are forever stuck with the outcome of that war and must abide by it for the rest of our lives.
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Why don't you go ask Carl Sagan if he ever worked in the food service industry?
I certainly hope the mods have the insight to mod you back down, you ignorant fucking troll.
I imagine we call them ERPs to jack up the price and set up a business model where there's continuous fucking^W servicing of the customer.
Honestly, after working within them for the past decade, I can't imagine anyone would want to calcify their business with such a tightly coupled morass requiring continuous upgrades.
Just terrible
You better watch out, there may be dogs about . .
Not if the jackbooted fed shitheads and their Christian lapdogs in the lobbying groups^W^W churches keep trying to fight against what states voted for.
Remember, we fought a war over this before and the federal government won.
Wrong.
The Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. Anyone who claims otherwise is a fool who doesn't know history, or a racist pining for the Good Old Days when blacks knew their place.
because when half my friends got their medical marijuana cards, i said forget paying for mine. i just ask my buddy to pick me up something from the pharmacy. southern california living. health care has nothing to do with easy access. and you really don't understand stoners if you think they're all huddled around a bong with 9-1-1 on the line trying to round up all the people who are more broke than they are after buying it. since it's obvious you don't know shit about marijuana or the culture, should probably sit this one out and let the grown ups talk.