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What It’s Like Getting A Burrito Delivered By Drone

Sam Jones
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What It’s Like Getting A Burrito Delivered By Drone

On a warm September day, a reporter stood in a field and waited for a burrito to fall from the sky via burrito drone.

Jacob Demmitt isn’t delusional and (probably) wasn’t on drugs. The Roanoke Times reporter spotted Project Wing, a Google Alphabet company, testing burrito delivery drones in the skies above nearby Virginia Tech, and set out on a mission to get him some heavenly Tex-Mex food.

https://twitter.com/jDemmitt/status/776451486859587584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Millennial dreams are made of these: Beans and rice in an overstuffed airborne flour tortilla.

https://twitter.com/jDemmitt/status/776452478867017734?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Turns out, there’s a bit of a markup for unnecessarily futuristic delivery systems. One carnitas burrito cost $13.73 total, including the $5.99 delivery fee. But hey, chips and guac were free — something no Chipotle-goer has ever experienced in this life or the next.

“I was told the drones are flying completely autonomously,”Demmitt writes. “There are pilots standing by just in case, but the planes know where to drop the orders by themselves if all goes according to plan.” The FAA suggests drone-pilots stay within eyesight of their tiny aircraft, which raises the question: Why not just walk the 200 yards to take the burrito from someone’s hand, instead? Because then you’d have to interact with a person, which, gross.

After seven minutes, the high-pitched hum of the drone is heard overheard. His camerawork could be in an audition reel for the next Cloverfield sequel.

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The much-anticipated moment arrives, as the box gently touches down and he unboxes this beautiful food baby:

https://twitter.com/jDemmitt/status/776454628850434048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Demmitt notes that the possibilities for uses are interesting to think about, but that there are a lot of kinks still being worked out before this Chipotle gimmick takes flight fully:

At the same time, it was clear this wasn’t a real-world environment. The drones were flying back and forth to the same delivery spot, there was an entire team overseeing each order and virtually no line (at least while I was there). Imagine doing this on Virginia Tech’s nearby campus, where the drones would have to worry about running into trees, buildings and pedestrians. In the end, I wouldn’t say these experiments mark the beginning of the drone-delivery industry. Instead, it was a very well executed proof of concept.

May our skies someday be filled with burritos for all.

Marijuana Company Successfully Sponsors Dale Earnhardt’s Grandson In NASCAR

Brendan Bures
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Marijuana Company Successfully Sponsors Dale Earnhardt’s Grandson In NASCAR

The grandson of NASCAR driving legend Dale Earnhardt recently received sponsorship from Veedverks, a Colorado-based marijuana vaping company. Bobby Earnhardt is also the nephew of retiring NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Bobby debuted the Veedverks logo this past weekend when he made his debut at the Pocono Raceway in the General Tire #AnywhereIsPossible200, an ARCA Racing Series race. The ARCA Racing Series is a professional minor league stock car racing league.

Both Veedverks and Bobby Earnhardt confirmed the sponsorship in public social media posts this past Thursday.

Veedverks made national headlines May when NASCAR blocked their apparently-approved sponsorship of driver Carl Long at the last second. NASCAR stated the logo violated the racing association’s rules for painting schemes and sponsorship. Part of the confusion stemmed from Long’s camp submitting the sponsorship for NASCAR approval with the Veedverk’s name misspelled.

This caused fans and enthusiasts of the company rallying behind them to receive their race car sponsorship. Thankfully with Dale Earnhardt’s son, they found their car. This is Bobby Earnhardt first season in the ARCA Racing series after previously spending four years on the ARCA Truck Racing series.

Unlike with NASCAR and Long, Veedverks got to see their sponsorship through. Earnhardt finished 25th in the race and posted the Veedverks sponsorship helped make the weekend possible.

Is This How Jeff Sessions Finally Kills Medical Marijuana?

Mike Adams
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Is This How Jeff Sessions Finally Kills Medical Marijuana?

There has been a great deal of speculation over the past several months about whether U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will impose a federal crackdown on the legal marijuana trade. Although Sessions has kept mostly quiet on the issue, a new document has surfaced showing that he has been working diligently to persuade the political animals on Capitol Hill to abandon the temporary protections it now provides for the medical marijuana industry.

In a letter sent to both chambers of Congress, Sessions begs federal lawmakers not to give any additional consideration to a rider tucked inside a federal spending bill that prohibits the Justice Department and its goons over at the DEA from using tax dollars to investigate, raid and prosecute members of the medical marijuana community.

“I believe it would be unwise for Congress to restrict the discretion of the Department to fund particular prosecutions, particularly in the midst of an historic drug epidemic and potentially long-term uptick in violent crime,” Sessions wrote. “The Department must be in a position to use all laws available to combat the transnational drug organizations and dangerous drug traffickers who threaten American lives.”

At the heart of his request, Sessions wants Congress to jump ship on a rider called the Rohrabacher-Farr Amendment, which has been in place for the past few years. It was recently renewed under the current federal spending bill, which was signed into law by President Donald Trump, but not without a warning that the end of this temporary order may be coming.

“I will treat this provision consistently with my constitutional responsibility to take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” Trump wrote in a signing statement back in April.

Ever since the Trump Administration took over the White House, there have been random peeps coming from various officials suggesting that all of the legal marijuana business happening in the United States was on borrowed time.

In fact, Sessions recently assembled a violent crime task force to review federal marijuana policies. The group is supposed to deliver its findings “no later than July 27.” There is speculation that the recommendations stemming from this review could lead to the reversal of an Obama-era memo allowing states to experiment with legal weed.

For now, the only thing standing in the way of a total federal crackdown on legal marijuana is the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment. There is nothing in place, not even

on a temporary basis, that offers the same protections for those states that have chosen to end prohibition altogether. This means if Sessions can prevent Congress from offering its support to the medical sector, the Department of Justice could easily step in and change the course of the legal marijuana movement for at least the next four years.

It was not that long ago that Sessions blamed legal marijuana on an uprising of cartel activity in the United States. The Attorney General reiterated this sentiment in his letter to Congress.

“Drug traffickers already cultivate and distribute marijuana inside the United States under the guise of state medical marijuana laws,” he wrote. “The individuals in these organizations often find a place for themselves within state regulatory systems.”

To solidify his argument against medical marijuana, Sessions also wrote in the letter that marijuana comes with “significant health effects,” including “psychosis, lung infections, IQ loss, and addiction.”

“For these reasons, I respectfully request that you oppose the inclusion of such language in Department appropriations,” Sessions concluded.

The fate of the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment will be realized in September. Either Congress will renew it, as it has done for the past three years, or lawmakers will side with Sessions and leave the medical marijuana industry out in the cold.

Gossip: Kris Jenner Is Worried Her Grandchildren Will Be Bullied; Beyonce Is Not The World’s Highest Paid Entertainer

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Gossip: Kris Jenner Is Worried Her Grandchildren Will Be Bullied; Beyonce Is Not The World’s Highest Paid Entertainer

Kris Jenner is nervous that her six grandchildren will be bullied. The Keeping Up With the Kardashians matriarch told The Hollywood Reporter on Monday, June 12, during a roundtable that as a grandma, she worries about her grandkids growing up in the spotlight they were born into.

“It’s my grandchildren who I worry about because I have six of them; the oldest just turned 7, and my youngest is 6 months old, and they don’t have a choice,” Jenner said of Mason, Penelope and Reign Disick; North and Saint West; and Dream Kardashian. “And I worry, I do, because it is such a bullying environment.”

Beyonce Is Not The World’s Highest Paid Entertainer

Cha-ching! Forbes magazine just released its list of the world’s highest-paid entertainers — and you won’t believe who beat Beyonce for the top spot.

While Queen Bey, 35, came in at No. 2 with a total of $105 million earned over the past year, it was Sean “Diddy” Combs who made the most money — $130 million! — among Hollywood’s biggest names.

While Beyonce’s income stemmed from her megahit album Lemonade and Formation World Tour, Combs’ financial success came from his Bad Boy Family Reunion Tour, his partnership with Ciroc vodka and selling one-third of his Sean John fashion line.

Taylor Swift, who took the top spot on last year’s list with a whopping $170 million revenue, fell to No. 49 with an income of approximately $44 million. Swift did not release a new album this year, and was not on tour.

The Weeknd, who appears on the cover of Forbes magazine’s latest issue, came in at an impressive No. 6 with $93 million. Last year, the “Starboy” singer, 27, came in at No. 30 with $55 million.

It should also be noted that the Kardashian-Jenner clan’s youngest member, Kylie Jenner, made the list for the very first time. The 19-year-old cosmetics mogul took the No. 59 spot with $41 million, while her older sister Kim Kardashian came in at No. 4 with $45.5 million.

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Here’s How California Will Make An Easy $5 Billion By 2018

Al Olson
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Here’s How California Will Make An Easy $5 Billion By 2018

California’s legal marijuana market is estimated to be a $5 billion boost to the state’s economy, according to a new state-sponsored economic study.

Voters in the state overwhelmingly approved Proposition 64, a ballot measuring that will legalize and regulate the sales and manufacture of cannabis, in November. California plans to have the program operation in 2018.

Recreational marijuana sales are forecast to bring the state and local municipalities $1 billion in tax revenue and provide more than 1,200 new cannabis-related jobs, according to the report.

The upbeat revenue forecast was dampened slightly by another finding in the study, conducted by the University of California Agricultural Issues Center. Nearly 30 percent of  the state’s marijuana consumers may opt to buy in the established black market.

Why? With legalization comes regulation and taxes. The study suggests that illegal marijuana will be popular among those trying to avoid the 15 percent sales tax and other regulatory costs.

“It’s going to take some time,” Lori Ajax, director of the state Bureau of Marijuana Control told the Los Angeles Times. “While it’s unlikely that everyone will come into the regulated market on Day One, we plan to continue working with stakeholders as we move forward to increase participation over time.”

According to the Times:

The analysis estimated that as of November, aggregate annual sales in medical marijuana were $2 billion a year (about 25% of total marijuana sales) and sales in the illegal market were $5.7 billion (75%).

The study also finds that the California medical market, in existence since 1996, will shrink by more than half the current rate.

“Revenues for medical cannabis in Washington State, for instance, fell by one-third in the first year after the legal adult-use cannabis system took effect, and by more subsequently,” the study noted.

A legalized marijuana program will also benefit California’s massive tourism industry, the study said. The Times reports:

 Currently, there are more than 260 million visits to California from people from out of state each year, and the visitors spend more than $122 billion in California, much of it on leisure goods and services, the study noted.

For example, tourists have been estimated to spend $7.2 billion a year on wine in California, the report said.

“Given that adult-use cannabis remains illegal in most other states, California’s legalized adult-use industry may attract some new visitors whose primary reason for visiting the state is cannabis tourism, as has been observed in Colorado,” the study said.

 

Tribal-Owned Grow Operations And Casinos Could Dramatically Shift The Marijuana Industry

Brendan Bures
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Tribal-Owned Grow Operations And Casinos Could Dramatically Shift The Marijuana Industry

A recent partnership between a cannabis advisory firm and MCW, a business owned by former Seminole Tribe chairman James Billie, could potentially prove as a landmark first step in changing the marijuana industry.

Last week Nevada-based Electrum Partners and MCW partnered to help assist Native American tribes across country in establishing medical marijuana ventures. The South Florida partnership believes they hold a distinct advantage through sovereign land. Billie believes marijuana business could soon be “bigger than bingo.”

“[W]e are bringing the benefits of our tribal sovereignty to the cannabis industry and the cannabis industry leadership is partnering with us to enable the next huge economic development opportunity for the Native American Community,” Chief Jim Billie said in a statement.

As the Miami Herald indicated, this could foreshadow tribal communities establishing marijuana businesses in Florida. Unlike traditional cannabis players, these tribal communities wouldn’t require state licenses and wouldn’t be restricted by such state regulations. However, the partners have designated they will specifically target “areas where it’s already legal and won’t be controversial,” as Billie told the Miami Herald.

In 2014 the Department of Justice issued the Wilkinson Memorandum, which gave tribal communities the freedom to engage in marijuana-related activities. In addition to the Obama administration’s 2013 Cole Memorandum—a list of temporary guidelines intended to prevent federal persecution in states that have legalized marijuana— the Wilkinson memo suggested to tribes they were protected against prosecution to grow and cultivate marijuana on their private lands.

However such operations haven’t proceeded so smoothly. North Dakota’s Santee Sioux tribe made national headlines when they announced plans to create a marijuana resort that would double as an “adult playground.” The Sioux would eventually suspend the venture and burn off crop estimated to be worth millions as federal agents hinted at a possible raid. Their consultants currently face criminal charges.

Meanwhile, Pinoleville Pomo Nation claimed they were the first tribe to grow and cultivate marijuana on tribal land following the Wilkinson memo. But the tribe was later raided by a local sheriff’s office who stated they had overstepped state regulations.

This has led to some within the cannabis industry to be skeptical regarding tribal-owned marijuana operations. But as Electrum President Leslie Bocskor indicated, these businesses that have failed involve tribes over-reaching and misunderstanding what the law allows. If tribes play by the rules, the lucrative possibilities are massive. Without tax obligations and tying sovereign land to the cannabis industry, tribes could hold an incredible financial advantage.

In addition to advising tribes entering the cannabis space, the partnership will also assist with funding these ventures. If they are successful, it could indicate a giant change for the rest of the cannabis industry.

Can A Good Wine Description Make You Spend More Money?

Jillian Peterson
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Can A Good Wine Description Make You Spend More Money?

Humans are emotional creatures. We tend to make decisions based on emotion. Generally speaking, if something makes us feel good, we go for it. If it feels good, it is good, right? Of course, the wine industry knows this. They’ve been playing up our emotions this entire time with the yarns they spin on their labels, describing the origins of the wine, its romantic history, personal anecdotes about the wine growers, and once in awhile, they even throw in a tidbit about a vineyard pet. So TFT asks, can a wine description make you spend more money?

Science Daily confirms this theory after talking to researchers at the University of Adelaide’s School of Agriculture, Food and Wine. They find that wine descriptions can alter not just consumer choice, but they can influence consumer emotions, increase their wine liking and encourage them to pay more for a bottle.

Associate Professor Sue Bastian led the study and has these sobering words:

Cleverly written wine and producer descriptions when coupled with unbranded wine tasting can evoke more positive emotions, increasing our positive perception of the wine, our estimation of its quality and the amount we would be willing to pay for it.

Researchers found that the more elaborate the description, the higher consumers rated the wine…and the higher the price they were willing to pay. But there is a breaking point. While elaborate wording is useful in prying open wallets, too much has the opposite effect.

Says Bastian, “If it was too far from the expectations then their liking and willingness to pay was not so good.”

Those involved in the study say it would probably be useful for wineries to get consumer input when writing their descriptions.

20 Insane Ice Cream Flavors From Around The World

Jillian Peterson
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20 Insane Ice Cream Flavors From Around The World

As the weather starts to get warmer and the days longer, seeing photos of stacked ice cream cones on our social media feeds usually leads to thoughts of sweet treats and strolls through the park. As you imagine yourself walking down the street licking a cone, what flavor comes to mind? Maybe chocolate peanut butter, or if you want to get really crazy, perhaps some salted caramel? Time to up your daydreaming game, because ice cream flavors are getting weirder all the time. Here’s 20 pieces of proof.

Toasted Leftover Baguette PB&J

Salt & Straw, Portland, OR

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This Portland based creamery, now with shops in Los Angeles, is using leftovers in their ice cream to create a waste-free product. Enter their baguette peanut butter and jelly flavor, made with salvaged unused bread from high-end grocery stores and restaurants, courtesy of Urban Gleaners.

Here, they’ve toasted the surplus baguettes, steeped them in sweet cream, and added swirls of jam to the mix. The fruit and berry jam also comes from Urban Gleaners and it’s paired with chocolate peanut butter.

Foraged Wild Garlic

Murphy’s, Dingle, Ireland

https://www.instagram.com/p/BUr3hl7DIdy

Fried Chicken & Waffles

Coolhaus, Los Angeles, CA

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMfeBk-g0q9

Brown butter maple ice cream with maple candied chicken skins and caramelized waffles make this a popular choice…for brunch.

Fast Food

Coolhaus, Los Angeles, CA

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Salted Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream, chocolate malt balls, and french fry crisps for when you’re craving fries dipped in a shake.

Smoked Pineapple and Green Chartreuse

Humphry Slocombe, San Francisco, CA

https://www.instagram.com/p/BGSYjodgBM8

Hummus

Papa Cream, Mumbai, India

https://www.instagram.com/p/BSFymKTDUmW

Bacon & Onion

Cool N2, Ontario, Canada 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BK6R0lzgBQa

Sea Salt Popcorn

Tuck Shop Take Away, Melbourne, Australia

https://www.instagram.com/p/BGwQJ–Kh3x

Lemon Meringue with Injectable Curd

Nitrogenie, Noosa, Australia

https://www.instagram.com/p/BTNdI05B3v5

Chips & Dip

Coolhaus, Los Angeles, CA

https://www.instagram.com/p/BSrzw4fjXT2

Having dinner for dessert make sense here. Creamy cream cheese and mascarpone base with salty , chocolate-covered potato chips!

Black Jelly Bean

Tuck Shop Take Away, Melbourne, Australia

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Strawberry Horseradish

Max & Mina’s, Flushing, NY

https://www.instagram.com/p/BScCEp4hDAI

Max and Mina’s is famous for their “every flavor under the sun” menu that has been known to include pesto, turkey dinner, and lox.

Hawaiian Pizza

Hanjip Korean BBQ, Culver City, CA

https://www.instagram.com/p/BIxtAJuDn2a

Eccentric ice creamery Coolhaus teamed up with Hanjip Korean BBQ to create a trio of ice cream sandwiches that includes: Korean Chili Fries, Hawaiian Pizza and Korean Cookies & Cream.

The Hawaiian Pizza features pineapple ice cream flecked with pieces of Spam and sandwiched between white chocolate macadamia nut cookies. The Korean Chili Fries consists of red bean ice cream with shoestring fries and a concoctions of snack-foods (butterscotch, pretzels and potato chips).

Lime Salad

Ted & Wally’s, Omaha, NE

https://www.instagram.com/p/BfT6fF7BpFR/?taken-by=tedandwallys

If you grew up in the 70s, you don’t need a reminder of that awful “dessert” your mom used to make.

Breast Milk

The Icecreamists, London, England

https://www.instagram.com/p/MBn2xSs1Vm

Parmesen, Fig & Honey

Pidapipó Gelateria, Melbourne, Australia

https://www.instagram.com/p/BAI6QhXSGY-

Ice Cold Beer

Max & Mina’s, Flushing, NY

https://www.instagram.com/p/BUMwWrVBp4L

Crème de la Corn

Dominique Ansel Kitchen, Tokyo, Japan

https://www.instagram.com/p/BJsa7i8h3iy

The ice cream comes atop an entire ear of hot, grilled corn (including the husk) which has been braised in a mixture of soy sauce and butter.

Bacalao (salt cod)

Heladeria Lares, Puerto Rico

https://www.instagram.com/p/aJlVIURrv-

Also on offer: rice and beans, corn, and rice and sausage ice cream flavors.

Wasabi Peanut

Café Waldi’s, Bavaria, Germany

https://www.instagram.com/p/BUe4Z0Nlewh

Gossip: Bill Cosby’s Defense Lawyer ‘Practically Gives Up’ During Closing Arguments; Cruz Beckham’s Singing Career Put On Hold By Parents

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Gossip: Bill Cosby’s Defense Lawyer ‘Practically Gives Up’ During Closing Arguments; Cruz Beckham’s Singing Career Put On Hold By Parents

A lawyer for Bill Cosby all but threw in the towel as he delivered lengthy, rambling closing arguments in the comedian’s sex assault trial.

“I pray to God you’ll do your job better than I did mine,” Brian McMonagle thundered to the panel of seven men and five women.

“If during the course of this trial I have said or done anything that might have offended one of you, hold it against me, not him. Me — not him. I wear my emotions on my sleeve and that’s not good for a lawyer.”

Cruz Beckham’s Singing Career Put On Hold By Parents

Cruz Beckham’s hopes of becoming a pop star have been dashed – by his parents.

The 11-year-old scored a top ten hit over Christmas but David and wife Victoria have decreed that Cruz must hang up his microphone for the foreseeable future and concentrate on his school work instead.

Cruz signed with pop mogul Scooter Braun at the end of last year and tasted success with If Every Day Was Christmas.

But his parents faced a backlash for pushing their children into the spotlight.

And now sources tell me it was never part of David and Victoria’s plan to allow Cruz to become a fully-fledged pop star before he flies the nest.

Cruz is not alone in having to learn to be patient. Big brother Brooklyn, 18, was looking forward to the launch of his photography book, What I See, on May 4. But after his parents insisted he must get his A-levels out of the way first, the release has been delayed until June 29. Brooklyn will head off to college in New York this autumn.
[From The Daily Mail]

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Jane Technologies Will Make Shopping For Marijuana As Easy As Amazon

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Jane Technologies Will Make Shopping For Marijuana As Easy As Amazon

Socrates Rosenfeld’s life has been dedicated to serving his country and serving others. After graduating from West Point, he served a tour of duty as an Apache helicopter pilot in Iraq. Now he wants to make shopping for marijuana as easy as shopping on Amazon.

At age 29, Rosenfeld stepped away from military life, but still felt the passion to serve. “Is there something more that I can be doing to help others?” he asked himself. The Army veteran struggled to find an answer, but figured going to MIT to receive his MBA wouldn’t hurt. So off he went to Cambridge, Mass.

While at MIT, Rosenfeld begin to shed the strict military structure. He learned the entrepreneurial skills that allowed him to start his own business, Jane Technologies, the cannabis industry’s first end-to-end online marketplace. And he smoked cannabis for the first time.

“I was totally opposed to marijuana,” Rosenfeld said. “I never really judged others, but it was not something I ever considered doing. I was always the straight arrow.”

Photo courtesy of Jane

But Rosenfeld talked to many of his fellow veterans and heard their horror stories about post traumatic stress. And he heard their stories about how cannabis helped them cope with the disease.

Nearly 20 percent of veterans who served in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom suffer from PTSD, according to the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.

The stories from the veterans and his research made him curious. He, too, tried cannabis.

“I felt instantly balanced the very first time I tried it,” Rosenfeld remembers. “It turned down the volume in my head and helped me calm down.”

Photo courtesy of Jane

From his first puff of cannabis at age 29, Rosenfeld knew how to continue his mission to serve others. He wanted his new company to facilitate others looking for medical relief from cannabis.

“Look, I have close friends who have been diagnosed with post traumatic stress. People I served with in the Army who have done some extraordinary things. They have earned the right to use cannabis to help themselves,” Rosenfeld said.

Rosenfeld and his wife, Emily, moved to Santa Cruz, Calif., to enjoy the West Coast vibe and to launch Jane Technologies in the nation’s largest cannabis-friendly state. Rosenfeld’s brother, Abraham, is a co-founder.

To get his company off the ground, Rosenfeld set out to raise $1 million in seed funding and instead got $1.2 million. Rosenfeld anticipates another round of funding will be coming in the fall.

Jane Technologies launched last month and bills itself as the cannabis industry’s first end-to-end online marketplace, where patients and customers can locate and order preferred products available in real-time at local dispensaries and retail outlets.

The major difference between Jane and other directories is what Rosenfeld calls the secret sauce. According to the company’s press release:

Jane is the only online marketplace that transforms a retailer’s existing point-of-sale system into a turnkey digital storefront, allowing medical and recreational consumers to search their menu items in real-time, compare prices, products and services with other dispensaries in the neighborhood and then reserve those items for in-store pickup or delivery.

“Consumers today want a certain experience when shopping online; they expect smarter searches with custom recommendations, and we believe the cannabis industry should be no different,” Rosenfeld, said.

“We also recognize that dispensaries are the backbone of this industry – and they’re tired of relying solely on expensive advertising to reach new customers. We’re committed to supporting those visionary operators who see where the industry is headed, and want to provide their customers with a simple and straightforward shopping experience – all while seamlessly operating within compliance of state law,” Rosenfeld added.

So far, Jane Technologies is focused on the Santa Cruz market with plans to be in San Francisco soon. Colorado and other states are also on the radar. As the company grows, Rosenfeld says the feedback from retailers has been better than expected.

“There’s no monthly subscription or contracts they’re tied into, there are no startup fees. What we want to create is the fairest model for consumers and retailers,” he says. “We want to earn the business, and if we can earn the business, we can a small flat fee. If we don’t bring business, they pay us nothing.”

Jane already has more than 200 retailers on board and the sky’s the limit. “We’re really excited about coming out to Denver,” Rosenfeld says about the company’s next strategic markets. “And we’ll keep providing our value in every state that has medical or recreational programs.”

For Rosenfeld, Jane is not just his company. It is his way to serve. “I believe that cannabis can bring well-being, health, and love into this world. It can put us in a place of self empathy and non judgment. And I am speaking from personal experience.

“Our team of military vets, artists, engineers, immigrants, and advocates are committed to connecting the cannabis consumer to quality local products from dispensaries in their neighborhood. As a business, we believe in creating a model where everyone can win.”

Photo courtesy of Jane

 

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