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Marijuana Growers Need Software, Too (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the when-times-get-high-the-tough-get-mellow dept.

Meet Kyle Sherman, founder and CEO of Flowhub, a company that makes software for marijuana growers. The company's website says Kyle "worked at a grow and experienced the problems with cannabis inventory management first hand. Frustrated by the software his grow was using, he searched for something better. When his search failed him, he became fueled by a passion to create a system that would accelerate workflows, increase accuracy, and simplify compliance."

Every state that legalizes marijuana will give Flowhub a new set of potential customers (and a new set of regulations their software must take into account). And Kyle talks about making easy-to-use enterprise software for other industries, based on his experience making super-simple software for marijuana people. It's possible that Flowhub will also make new versions of the NUG, the handheld "all-in-one device" Flowhub provides along with its subscription-based software. Are we talking about unbridled optimism here? Absolutely! This is America, where possibilities are endless, even in the not-100%-legal (yet) marijuana industry.

94 comments

  1. Kyle worked at a grow by JustNiz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Clearly one of the worse side-effects of drug abuse is no longer being able to differentiate between verbs and nouns.

    1. Re:Kyle worked at a grow by SuricouRaven · · Score: 1

      There are many examples of a word that can be used as a verb or a noun. 'Find,' for instance.

    2. Re:Kyle worked at a grow by ArmoredDragon · · Score: 1

      So long as fewer than 20% of every sentence uttered by the majority of the people in this country doesn't end with "dude" or "man" I don't think marijuana will be a problem.

    3. Re:Kyle worked at a grow by ArmoredDragon · · Score: 1

      Editing mistake, meant to remove the "doesn't".

    4. Re:Kyle worked at a grow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Clearly one of the worse side-effects of drug abuse is no longer being able to differentiate between verbs and nouns.

      You must be old (Welcome to our club! May I interest you in one of our fine electric child-from-lawn removers?)

      Like hippy shirts and corduroy pants being a stereotype linked to the 60's/70's, verbing our nouns (see what I did there?!) is similarly linked to the '00's.

      All the cool kids are doing it these days, even the ones that aren't drunk or stoned.

      Don't get me wrong, I'm old now too and dislike change, but this is simply what languages do over time.
      Verbing the nouns today is no different from how the sentence you typed out came into being long ago. You aren't using real old-english either, so are equally as wrong in all of spelling, syntax, and grammar.

      The only difference is you picked a different point in the recent past as what English should be compared to kids of today, of which both are different from the generations before which are different from the original English.

      I don't think many here would fault you for disliking change simply because it is a change, but you seem to be denying the fact changes even occur or are a possibility, which is simply foolhardy and ripe with much disappointment and sadness.

    5. Re:Kyle worked at a grow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, it's another example of Idiocracy coming true faster than originally thought.

    6. Re:Kyle worked at a grow by JustNiz · · Score: 0

      >> Like hippy shirts and corduroy pants being a stereotype linked to the 60's/70's, verbing our nouns (see what I did there?!) is similarly linked to the '00's.

      Unfortunately "verbing our nouns" is unlike the fashion examples you mentioned in the single most important respect: It doesn't have the good taste to only exist in the same decade as when it was considered "cool". I like to call that the rap phenomenon.

    7. Re:Kyle worked at a grow by JustNiz · · Score: 1

      I am going to a find?
      Is this an American English thing?

    8. Re:Kyle worked at a grow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You idiot. It's "fuck".

    9. Re: Kyle worked at a grow by rus.tech.studio · · Score: 2

      Are you saying rap music is just a fad that has outlived its time? Man, you really must be old - grumpy because of new lingo, grumpy because of new music. Must suck to be you mate.

    10. Re:Kyle worked at a grow by metrix007 · · Score: 0

      Rap is one of the most diverse and rich genres of music. Kind of foolish to dismiss it, it just shows your ignorance IMO.

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    11. Re: Kyle worked at a grow by JustNiz · · Score: 0

      >> Are you saying rap music is just a fad that has outlived its time?

      Yes. Exactly. Rap is just like every other commercially motivated music form through the last 100 years at least.
      look at all the biggest trends/musical fads of the last century as an example. Before 1900 classical was the mainstream thing to listen to, then by maybe 1910 it was Swing Band, then in the 1930's Jazz, up to 1950's Rock n Roll, then 60's beatle-type pop, then 70's Disco and Rock, then late 70's Punk, then early 80's New Wave/Electronic, then late 80's/90's Indie and New age, etc etc. I know the above is a very massive generalization but you get my point. Each musical mainstream style has only a few years period which was definitely identifiable as being their time. I don;t know why anyone would think Rap would be any different.
      Personally I can't wait for the next thing whatever it is to get here ASAP and bury rap underground where it belongs.

    12. Re:Kyle worked at a grow by JustNiz · · Score: 1

      Yeah I've heard different people make exactly the same claim about what ever their favourite genre of music happens to be, including blues, country and western, pop, prog rock, and heavy metal, being the one true musical genre or whatever.

      I think the problem exists because people think of rap as music in the first place, when It obviously isn't. its street poetry set to music that is often sampled/mixed/ripped off from somewhere else, so not even trying to be original, which is normally one of the most important criteria for all other forms of music. Most rap artists don't know any music theory and can't play musical instruments or even sing, so its not about creating new music. Its all about the words, hence its poetry not music. No one will admit that though because being into poetry is not exactly considered a masculine trait.

      The thing is, rap seems to be very narrow as a genre. Have you not noticed how eerily similar all the drum tracks are between most rap "music"?, or how it sees almost compulsory that all rappers perform with exactly the same fake gangsta accent? Unfortunately the only thing keeping rap alive is commercialism, not musical talent. There is literally no real musical creativity going on in the rap genre which is why rap is not only not music, but is inevitably destined to implode. Personally I can't wait.

    13. Re:Kyle worked at a grow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I've heard archaeologists and paleontologists (for example) use the term "the find" in this manner often enough, though I'm not so sure it's just an example of American usage.

    14. Re:Kyle worked at a grow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Obvious troll is obvious.

    15. Re:Kyle worked at a grow by metrix007 · · Score: 1

      You are completely wrong, and apparently unfamiliar with the genre. You continue to show your ignorance.

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      If you ignore ACs because they are anonymous - you're an idiot.
    16. Re:Kyle worked at a grow by JustNiz · · Score: 1

      You're the one showing your ignorance. There is no definitive right or wrong with respect to art/music, only opinions. Yours is that rap is an amazingly creative music form. Mine is that rap is blatantly talentless commercial shit. These are all just opinions so there is nothing to be completely wrong about.

  2. Who needs software? by s.petry · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine. "
    Jeff Spicoli

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    -The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.

    1. Re:Who needs software? by Wintermute__ · · Score: 1

      I read the last few lines of your post as an extended signature:

      Signed,
      Jeff Spicoli -- Senior System Engineer/Architect

    2. Re:Who needs software? by fragMasterFlash · · Score: 1

      I wonder how far up the executive ladder of Southland Corporation Mike Damone managed to climb before the buyout?

  3. AKA aiding and abetting a criminal enterprise? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a good way to end up in federal court under RICO charges. Personally: I'm not that hungry for clients/consultant gigs.

    1. Re:AKA aiding and abetting a criminal enterprise? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sounds like a good way to end up in federal court under RICO charges. Personally: I'm not that hungry for clients/consultant gigs.

      This. Also provides a nice centralized place for Feds to go looking for all the juicy intel they could possibly need to go after the growers directly.

    2. Re: AKA aiding and abetting a criminal enterprise? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      WTF? Are you that dense?
      Legal growers have to get a license already. The Feds know who they are from day 1.

    3. Re: AKA aiding and abetting a criminal enterprise? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What's your point? Sounds like fishing in an ocean of fish with a bucket of dynamite. States do not have the constitutional authority to pre-empt the federal government and Marijuana is a scheduled Narcotic banned by the US congress and regulated by the DEA. "Legal" marijuana laws only prohibit state law enforcement from enforcing federal law. This is why I said "federal court".

      The Feds allow legal marijuana to persist as a pseudo-legitimate gray market, IE: only raiding facilities whenever their whims deem it appropriate to remind the industry they are walking on thin ice.

      More cynical people would say they are acting as enforcers and picking winners and losers based on political/corrupt conflicts of interest. All of this only strengthens my point.

    4. Re: AKA aiding and abetting a criminal enterprise? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      "States do not have the constitutional authority to pre-empt the federal government"

      And the federal government does not have the constitutional authority to regulate what plants humans consume or grow.
      The entire Federal drug control system is a constitutional farce.

      When they banned alcohol at the federal level there was no question that a constitutional amendment was needed. Regulating alcohol obviously needed an amendment because there was nothing in the constitution giving the federal government any authority over it.

      ALL drugs of every kind were completely legal under federal law until 1906 when the FDA was setup to protect consumers from FRAUD. There was rampant 'snake oil' being sold that did not list all ingredients, lied about ingredients, included known poisons, and claimed to cure ailments it could not possibly cure.
      The FDA was NOT setup to ban drugs, but to stop fraud in the sale of drugs.
      It was perfectly legal to sell Marijuana extract (popular for cold and flu symptoms) , cocaine extract (popular for coughs and tooth pain), etc. They just had to list ingredients and percentages and make no false claims about cures or effects.

      In fact, during alcohol prohibition Marijuana cigarettes expanded beyond the until that point normal population of poor southern native farm workers and a few other corners of society and started to be sold at drug stores all across america. It eventually became popular with poor black musicians who could not afford prohibition alcohol and could not risk the disproportionate enforcement of alcohol laws on minorities. They also found they enjoyed it. (Oh no, someone enjoying something!)

      Then, in 1919 even with the precedent of the FDA regulating drug fraud it was obvious to all that to ban alcohol a constitutional amendment was still needed to give this power to the Federal Government.

      After the repeal of prohibition the various government players (Anslinger) who were involved in enforcing alcohol laws needed to justify their existence, this, coupled with various industrial interests in hemp, as well as support for deporting 'Mexican' (actually native) people in southern states during the harsh years of the great depression allowed them to gain cynical support for a ban on various drugs used by the 'lower degenerate races'. It was passed as a tax act, something the federal government does authority to do, but they would not allow anyone to pay the tax. This was finally found unconstitutional in the 1960's.

      They then changed track and then argued that they could regulate under the power to regulate interstate commerce, but in some of the most bizarre legal reasoning ever, claim that they can regulate the commerce to 0 (meaning no commerce at all) as well as regulate INTRA -state commerce as well under the reasoning that any commerce of any type, including two neighbors bartering, could somehow effect what commerce they could POTENTIALITY do with someone in another state. This legal reasoning opens up the new interpretation that the federal government has no limits to its power whatsoever because any thing any person does could through any number of hypothetical steps cause them to buy, or not buy something from a hypothetical person in another state.

      This is of course a bizarre and unconstitutional interpretation of the interstate commerce clause. The founders and the constitution and bill of rights make very clear that the scope of the authority given to the federal government is limited to the amendments of the constitution and any other authorities are the of the States and of the People. No obtuse reading of the interstate commerce clause allows the Federal Government unlimited power to do anything they want.

      This new experiment in legislating human behavior and waging war on citizens has been failing for 60 years. We need to stop it and move forward.
      The actual WAR on citizens I must remind everyone was started by President Nixon.
      He was a fraud. He was horribly racist even for his time. He was a liar.
      Th

  4. Inventory by nytes · · Score: 1

    Kyle "worked at a grow and experienced the problems with cannabis inventory management first hand.

    Yeah, I imagine inventory had a tendency to go up in smoke.

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  5. Enjoy a Haiku by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Stoners and neckbeards
    Collaborate on software
    Pass the Cheetos please

    1. Re:Enjoy a Haiku by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Stoners and neckbeards
      Collaborate on software
      Pass the Cheetos please

      Nice... how is this still Score:0? It's a well constructed Haiku! Only one thing: shouldn't the "and" in the first line be "with"? Or is "neckbeard" a way to refer to someone who has a neckbeard? As someone who isn't part of the partial-facial-hair scene, I'm not hip to the lingo.

  6. that's how they got Capone... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    that's how they silenced Bob Lazar, too, man!

  7. Re:The Truth About Marijuana and CFS by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Where are you getting this shit? How much is it per ounce?

  8. Re: The Truth About Marijuana and CFS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Dude, this is an article on marijuana, not LSD. Wait till a LSD thread to post your trip, man.

    Some god for thought, change two letters LSD to LDS and you get the initials for the church of Latter Day Saints - the Mormons. Gives a whole new meaning to Golden Tablets from an angel.

    Peace out, bro!

  9. Is he saying keeping tracks of inventory by future+assassin · · Score: 1

    that is weed needs some special software vs any other inventory/pos software? Did the pesticides he sprayed with out a mask on affect him?

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    1. Re:Is he saying keeping tracks of inventory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Seed to sale tracking is required which is a little more rigorous than your typical inventory/POS system.

    2. Re:Is he saying keeping tracks of inventory by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 2

      Yes, weed is fundamentally different from other inventories. The market value varies widely based on myriad factors, some within control of the "manufacturer" and some completely outside their control, and they vary from yield to yield at different frequencies and periods. A given strains market value fluctuates, and so too does a given crop based, again, on myriad factors. Indeed, there is no product that has the same characteristics and is subject to the same market dynamics as marijuana. You would do well to remain silent on subject matters with which you clearly have no familiarity, rather than criticizing people whom you falsely assume are not smarter than you. I can assure you there are many, many pot smokers who are much smarter than you are. Again, you would do well not to underestimate a person based upon your prejudices based upon propaganda and falsehoods.

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      Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
    3. Re:Is he saying keeping tracks of inventory by Lumpy · · Score: 1

      Yes for the most part. Thinking up business ideas while fully baked never really works well.

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      Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
    4. Re:Is he saying keeping tracks of inventory by PlusFiveTroll · · Score: 2

      >but a stable legal market.

      Like the stock market, stocks never change in price. Or gas prices at the pump, they stay stable for long periods of time, right?

      You seem to be very confused how markets work. Some markets are real time priced markets and the price and inventory is expected to fluctuate moment to moment. Other markets are stabilized by huge amount of production and rarely fluctuate, such as the price of a candy bar at the local store. Weed is not a 'white' market, the feds still randomly bust suppliers, and at the federal level it is still illegal. Also customers have personal tastes, if everyone wants the strain *dank memes*, demand dictates that the price goes up, especially if supply is limited. Until you see a futures contracts for supply of marijuana there will be volatility in the market.

    5. Re:Is he saying keeping tracks of inventory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Check out the labeling requirements for WA state :O Shit is as bad as our pharmacy software was. In fact worse, most drugs don't have a different potency for every lot number. ALso every lot is a new product, most software expects you to buy and sell the same thing many times. I imagine pharmacy type software would work but is overkill since they usually account for insurance, copays, etc.

      Hmm, I bet one does uses a pharmacy focused software program since that software REALLY likes to add an expiration dates to labels needed or not and one batch had 1 year (usual default) expiration date on the package.

      They changed the tax structure this year, but last year it was unlike any other business. Now it is just an exaggerated sales tax instead of 3 taxes down the line.

    6. Re:Is he saying keeping tracks of inventory by Khyber · · Score: 2

      "What market fluctuations, were not talking about the black market where is changes all the time but a stable legal market."

      You obviously don't live in a state where marijuana has any form of legality, because the prices can be $5/g one day and $20/g the next.

      You didn't hit a nerve, you proved how stupid and thoughtless you truly are.

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    7. Re:Is he saying keeping tracks of inventory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      lol, the black market was the stable one for the 1st year !

    8. Re:Is he saying keeping tracks of inventory by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 1

      All I can say is, if you're writing software, stay the hell away from pot. Nothing kills a high like staring at code, and nothing kills code like being high.

    9. Re:Is he saying keeping tracks of inventory by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 1

      "Oh my hit a nerve did I?"

      You hit a completely different nerve than you seem to think, but that is par for your course of cluelessness. The particular nerve you hit is the one I have for morons that think they are smart. I don't mind a dumb guy who knows he isn't very smart, but idiots like you who think they are smart but are actually morons ruin both Slashdot and society in general. Have a nice day!

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      Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
    10. Re:Is he saying keeping tracks of inventory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Maybe for your weak ass. Pot affects different people in different ways. To more experienced smokers, it could help their concentration by putting them "in the zone". Knowing how your program should work and just need to pound out the code is different than having to think it up and write code as you go.

    11. Re:Is he saying keeping tracks of inventory by BitZtream · · Score: 1

      ... So you mean its like every other farm commodity on the planet?

      Don't give me that bullshit. Its no different than several other 'inventories', like tobacco ... which its exactly like where it is legal or many chemicals or any prescription drug after its made.

      What you're referring to is nothing more than the wake of legalization. In a few years, it will flatline and be as stable as every other produce.

      You would be wise to stop your whining and enjoy the fact that you're getting paid more than its worth in all scenarios you're experience currently.

      You would do well to remain silent on subject matters with which you clearly have no familiarity, rather than criticizing people whom you falsely assume are not smarter than you

      Are you stoned? Acting like you have a clue doesn't make you right. Acting like you have a clue and the other guy is an idiot just makes you look stupid to everybody who knows you're talking out your ass.

      So just taking your bitchy ass back in side, STFU and get ready for the reality that is 5 years from now when you're little grow no longer exists because the real farmers made you look silly over night.

      Growing pot isn't special. Only a moron would be so naive.

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    12. Re:Is he saying keeping tracks of inventory by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 1

      "... So you mean its like every other farm commodity on the planet?"

      No, I don't mean that at all, and that fact that you make that assertion shows just how littler you understand about marijuana and the grow industry. I didn't bother to read the rest of your drivel, as you are a known troll. Off you go now little troll, and oh yeah, I almost forgot. In case you are a Sharp-Garrett dweab ... Have a Nice Day!

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      Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
    13. Re:Is he saying keeping tracks of inventory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I find just the opposite to be true, being "high" allows me to think more abstract about a problem and helps break it down

    14. Re:Is he saying keeping tracks of inventory by metrix007 · · Score: 1

      zero_kelvin is one of the more arrogant and misinformed posters on this site. Just ignore him.

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      If you ignore ACs because they are anonymous - you're an idiot.
    15. Re: Is he saying keeping tracks of inventory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sure, but it makes you suck at English.

    16. Re:Is he saying keeping tracks of inventory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      " Its no different than several other 'inventories', like tobacco"
      So every single tobacco plant is bar-coded and tracked from seedling to cigarette?

      No?

      Then its different

    17. Re: Is he saying keeping tracks of inventory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sucks to be you. Pot smokers are everywhere in IT. I am sure you don't know anything about that though. Let me guess, you have a wide stance.

    18. Re: Is he saying keeping tracks of inventory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes they are, and it's one of the reasons why code in general is a fucking mess and software in general is complete crap.

      Real coders use Cocaine.

  10. and a FPMITAP by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 1

    For drugs and money laundering yes the ways the people doing that handle there cash = money laundering

  11. Slashdot effect? by n3v · · Score: 1

    Error establishing a database connection

    1. Re:Slashdot effect? by Roblimo · · Score: 1

      Heh. And you think nobody watches these videos or reads the transcripts?

      Anyway, just checked. They're back.

      - Rpb

  12. Any business management software will do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    We have marijuana growers using our free business management software too. http://StudioCloud.com

    1. Re:Any business management software will do by xombo · · Score: 1

      Way to sign yourself up for a federal subpoena.

  13. Marijuana is a legal drug in some states of US. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Some programmers maybe smoking or taking marijuana for experimenting a good experience before of starting to develop code for marijuana.

  14. Free? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    -10: No indication that it's released with an Open Source (GPL, AFL, etc.) license! Quite the opposite.

    1. Re:Free? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Some words mean different things. Microsoft released Windows "10" for "free," meaning they weren't charging existing Windows 7, and 8 users to screw up their computers even worse by downloading and installing the latest in garbageware... Apple made OS X free starting with OS X 10.10.10.10.10.10.9 Mavericks, (or however many redundant tens there are in the name,) but neither is F/LOSS... and the F/LOSS community doesn't own a trademark on the word, "free".

  15. Inventory management? Why is this news? by Razed+By+TV · · Score: 1

    I would think that growing and managing marijuana would be similar to at least some other agriculture/horticulture items (or even pharmaceuticals or alcohol). Going on that assumption, I'm a little surprised there isn't already decent software that can handle this. If there really isn't an existing solution, Flowhub is making the wrong software.

    (Yes, the CEO says he is thinking of expanding it to other industries. No, I didn't WTFV, but I would have at least glanced at a transcript if there was one.)

    1. Re: Inventory management? Why is this news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sigh. There *is* a transcript.

  16. We simply don't have enough by AndyKron · · Score: 1

    Yes, the world can always use another database application. We simply don't have enough. Put it in the cloud, too, and don't forget the NSA backdoor.

    1. Re:We simply don't have enough by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 1

      Yes, the world can always use another database application. We simply don't have enough. Put it in the cloud, too, and don't forget the NSA backdoor.

      And make it dynamically-scalable and customer-centric while you're at it.

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    2. Re:We simply don't have enough by purplepolecat · · Score: 1

      The product will end up in the cloud, may as well put the data there.

  17. "...for marijuana people..." by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Marijuana people.

    1. Re:"...for marijuana people..." by rubycodez · · Score: 0

      are those similar to potheads? There has always been a pothead or two at each place I've worked over the years; potheads are not big on accuracy when performing data entry, nor do they seem to have much conscience about stealing for some reason. Perhaps doobage dulls that? Ah well, at least they're relaxed and not stressed out.

    2. Re:"...for marijuana people..." by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Something tells me you have never met a "pothead" in the first place.

    3. Re:"...for marijuana people..." by rubycodez · · Score: 1

      I have a couple as relatives too; getting a little butt-hurt about my observations are you, bong brain? Maybe it's time for you to toke up

  18. Static web wanted. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It seems to me that you don't understand that typing the word Marijuana actually gets someone partially (a very small percentage) stoned and very ANGRY (more anger than stoned) when they read the word through information transference. I suggest everyone except myself (God) stop putting information onto the internet so that it becomes static. Commit suicide and don't feel pain, or suffer pain that will increase more.

  19. Re:The Truth About Marijuana and CFS by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 1

    Someone must act on these truths and protect the innocent. Will it be you?

    Stop harshing my buzz, dude.

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    Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
  20. Data Mining Experiment? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No terms of use or privacy statement anywhere on the site. Just a statement about the cloud that says, "Your data is safe with us." Nice. If the federal government changes their stance on enforcing current regulations around pot, here's a nice big database of who to target first.

    1. Re:Data Mining Experiment? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      All of the legal businesses in Colorado are operating under licenses that are awarded by the CO State government. Every single employee in the industry legally needs to be background checked federally and internationally to earn a badge (you need this in order to work in a grow or retail operation. The federal government has all of this information already and is accessible to them at any time. Also, companies have to tag each and every plant grown with a unique ID and report these daily to the State. This software seems to help with this process.

      This was part of the deal with feds when CO legalized.

    2. Re: Data Mining Experiment? by Type44Q · · Score: 1

      Lolol, that so-called "deal" carries no legal weight whatsoever. The Feds can put a stop to this instantly bit will they? They're signalling otherwise but only a fool would trust that.

  21. Re: The Truth About Marijuana and CFS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Don't hog that joint, bro.

  22. Re:Inventory management? Why is this news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    https://biotrackthc.com/

  23. "Same Technology as Twitter and Netflix" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    From the website:

    "Flowhub is cloud based and uses the same technology that powers sites such as Twitter and Netflix."

    Damn, I would not get that impression from a template Wordpress website clone.

    1. Re:"Same Technology as Twitter and Netflix" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      From the website:

      "Flowhub is cloud based and uses the same technology that powers sites such as Twitter and Netflix."

      Damn, I would not get that impression from a template Wordpress website clone.

      I was listening to an interview recently and this same CEO was on it and he mentioned that the web app they built runs on AWS and scales elastically but that they wanted to put all of their energy into the web app and iOS components and not the front website or something along those lines. I think they have a decent size team and have backing. I'll try to find the link.

  24. The biggest problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The greatest challenge facing anyone making software for the marijuana growing industry is version control, when every release must be marketed as Version 4.20

    Just behind that is being raided every other day by an acronymed government agency for breaking some obscure law about facilitation or aiding and abetting, etc.

  25. Avoid this guy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Met this guy around Denver working with another grow facility... He's a total ass that's only out to screw people over and keep it as proprietary as he can. Avoid at all costs.

    1. Re:Avoid this guy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Really? I've been following this company for a while. The guy in the video seems to be doing the opposite and helping the industry. I went to a panel he was on and spoke with him after. He has been lobbying the government and was able to open up the colorado state reporting APIs for all companies and entrepreneurs. He's trying to keep legalization transparent at the government level. Super nice guy.

      I should add, I was on a tour through a large grow operation that was using flowHub software and they showed it to us and were going nuts over it and how far the industry is progressing (this is how I originally found out about the company).

    2. Re:Avoid this guy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      He's all about advancing the industry (for his own gain), and advancing his software (for his own gain), but you'll notice he completely tried to avoid the question about open source in very politician / lawyer kind of way. He's as slippery as they come and always tries manipulating situations to his advantage and everyone else disadvantage.

    3. Re: Avoid this guy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So, he's a businessman selling proprietary software to a new industry? Someone lock him up!

  26. Intentional slip by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    super-simple software for marijuana people

    It really has to be super-simple..Yes, what was I thinking about?

  27. GET THIS FUCKING SHIT OFF SLASHDOT NOW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    GET THIS FUCKING SHIT OFF SLASHDOT NOW

    This isn't High Times. This isn't Reddit. There are a MILLION places out there to discuss drug addiction and violating federal law.
    Slashdot is NOT one of them.

    Fuck you roblimo for sullying Slashdot with this fucking pothead crap.

    GET THIS FUCKING SHIT OFF SLASHDOT NOW

    1. Re: GET THIS FUCKING SHIT OFF SLASHDOT NOW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It would probably be a lot easier to wave good-bye to you as you run away from Slashdot. (Waves)

  28. Drugs vs copyright infringement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Supply software that helps with the production of illegal drugs - No problemo
    Supply software that helps with copyright infringement - Bank accounts siezed and lawsuit follows

    I wonder why that is...

    (not really)

  29. The coup de grâce... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Oh yeah...

    "Flowhub is cloud based and uses the same technology that powers sites such as Twitter and Netflix. Your data is safe with us."

  30. Hardware? by LifesABeach · · Score: 1

    Robotics? I don't know what Cheech and Chong would do if they incountered a robot harvesting Pot. But handling that stuff, daily, can't be bad?

  31. It's called an ERP system.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is a confusing thing to talk about. It sounds like the guy has never used an ERP system before. There are a lot of existing options and tweaking one system to use cannibis instead of another crop wouldn't be that hard. This guy is just trying to make a splash by jumping onto something new and pretending like existing solutions don't work.

    As a side note I have a hard time telling if I'd trust a stoner company to make software for anything. Especially counting a cash crop...

  32. Hopefully marijuana remains low profile by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And the commercializing of marijuana has started. I'm against the use of marijuana for myself and for my friends. If I know a friend is a regular user I will try to warn him and help him stop use it, and if I don't succeed, well, I'm not really interested to hang around people without emotions, interests or dreams.

    I'm not in favor on a ban on marijuana either, there is a market for it with or with a ban. With a ban you will have lots of criminality, without a ban it becomes a legal business.

    And that's right there the problem in our current society were economy is the new religion. I live in a country were there marijuana was tolerated as long as I live. But the free market has lead to ever stronger and more effective forms of marijuana. They are no longer the mildly intoxicating cigarettes, so called soft drugs, but they have become a hard drugs with businesses behind them whose marketing tries to attract new users and keep existing users. Many people have become marijuana addicts. I've former friends who can't start the day without their first joint. They have to 'refill' their body with the intoxicating compounds of these joints during the work day, and in the weekends when they want to get 'high' they use alternative drugs like lots of alcohol, cocaine, MDMA, speed, ...

    People without real emotions, just zombies doing their regular work, no dreams, no interests, often on the brink of a depression, falling deeper and deeper the longer they use the drugs.

    The problem isn't even really the marijuana. The problem is that we live in a society where economy and money is worshiped. Within a few years these growers have become medium sized businesses who try to grow to earn more money. They become unethical, just like any other business. And slowly marijuana becomes a regular consumer product that is available around the corner. A product for daily use instead of a special drug for a special event.

    They become the new cigarettes, the new high caffeine/high sugar soda, the new -insert unhealthy product with a big business behind it-. And that's unfortunate.

    Sometimes I don't know what is worse: the criminal organizations or the big businesses? The current growers have already lots of free marketing: the many 'modern artists' who praise marijuana in their songs and will not have problems finding consumers for the products.

  33. Dissapearing comments by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Interesting that entire comment chains are disappearing on this site now also.

    1. Re:Dissapearing comments by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nevermind, just odd filtering by default (even when it says showing all comments)

  34. Re:Inventory management? Why is this news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Agreed, more interesting would be an item on growing automation such as microcontroller-based control systems to maintain ideal growing conditions (hydrophonics/temperature/humidity/light) and how its sensors and algoritms are implemented.