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ERP Vendors Get Into Medical Marijuana Business

Posted by Soulskill on from the gone-to-pot dept.

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.'"

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  1. I guess a stoner wouldn't know by scribblej · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  2. Re:Super unique. by DeathElk · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think it evaporates due to a phenomena known as "sticky fingers".

  3. Amateurs by Animats · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Amateurs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      FYI the burnout cases on the streets aren't pot heads. They're likely heroin addicts or alcoholics. you probably don't know the difference. The burnouts are always going to be burnouts.

      FYI I am a 4.0 university student who smokes weed.

      It makes no sense to ban a substance from people like me because of a very small percentage of people who are not likely to achieve much in the first place. I'm in Denver, which is often talked about as the most weed friendly place in the US so YMMV, but I know more successful, driven overachievers who smoke weed than total losers who do.