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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.'"
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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Repeat after me, we are all individuals. Yeah, the whole premise here is lame. ERPs are essentially custom tailored one-stop solutions for your business, it's pretty close to the definition of an ERP. So they wrote some special stuff for this business, just like they do for every business. Yawn.
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Look at small business Ag Business software and solutions.
"...there's no other product that is sold by weight that evaporates, dehydrates and [turns into] shake." - Thats just not true, grain is sold by weight, it dehydrates, some of it is lost from mechanical breakdown, rot, etc
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.
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They don't call denver the mile high city for nothing.... Colorado is rocky mountain high.
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.
I think it evaporates due to a phenomena known as "sticky fingers".
Starbucks, even?
We don't have time for a handjob.
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Ha ha. THC (and other active cannabinoids) do not evaporate but break down in the presence of light and/or oxygen. There is an optimal wetness (varies by individual preference), however it has to be dry enough to not mold if its in airtight storage (if its done drying, in other words). Theres a lot more too it proper drying and curing of pot, google is there for any interested souls. I don't think that quote was meant in relation to ANY and ALL products, but in relation to other medical products, like pills, creams, liquids, powders, etc.
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.
$20/ounce is actually a low price. Most outdoor growers average $50 an ounce to obtain AAA medical quality. Most indoor growers using HID spend about $100-150 per AAA ounce produced. Also, outdoor growing is actually very inefficient and soil takes much longer than hydro to produce a crop.
It's cheaper for me because my particular system drops resource usage WAY, WAY down. LED for growth, NFT for highly reduced water usage and nutrient usage.
Waste not, pay not.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.