Former NM Governor Looks to Build the 'Microsoft of Marijuana'

[unokitty]

Nevada-based startup Cannabis Sativa Inc. announced Johnson as its new president and CEO on Tuesday, and he sees the potential for explosive nationwide growth.

Johnson: 'I don’t know if I’m the Bill Gates of marijuana, but we might be the Microsoft of marijuana. The whole country is going to legalize marijuana in 10 years, and then so goes the world.'...

High hopes indeed, but you never know. If Cannabis Sativa, Inc. could sell sound bites along with grass, it would be challenging Microsoft already. But somebody is going to make billions on legal weed sooner or later. The Budweiser of bud may be closer than you think. Trust me, somebody, perhaps even Cannabis Sativa, Inc., is going to hit it big.

Seems like more and more people are trying to position themselves to make money off of legalized marijuana.

Still, with recreational marijuana only currently legal in two states, lots of laws will have to change before real profits start to flow.

My perception is that votes to legalize marijuana correlated with the larger turn outs of presidential elections. Which means that it won't be until 2016 that this happens.

Or, could more legalization happen in the Fall 2014 Federal Elections?

What's happening in your state?

Think legalization in 2016 or 2014 or some other date or never?

Uno

 

[Zebo]

I dont see it happening in religious right wing south nor uptight NE. Could be wrong but western stats have referendums more and seems to be more free spirited.

 

[K1052]

In the near term I think it's likely that a few more states will legalize and the feds will reschedule it. I don't see the feds moving on outright legalization until at least a majority of states have legalized, including large populous ones like CA/FL/IL/NY/TX...that will probably be sometime considerably after 2016.

 

[Anarchist420]

mcawful is a fascistic piece of shit, so it wont be legalized in virginia for a long time

 

[K1052]

I dont see it happening in religious right wing south nor uptight NE. Could be wrong but western stats have referendums more and seems to be more free spirited.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2014/07/03/half-voters-with-legalized-marijuana/XHWOJ8dS9ohbCzJIfNKIjI/story.html

Polling indicates half of MA favors legalization now, which kind of surprises me.

 

[shortylickens]

The weed is gonna crash every 24 hours and need tech support from India?

 

[HTFOff]

The fact that pot is classified as a schedule i drug under federal law is why it makes my top 10 biggest crock of shit list of laws in this country.

I don't know the perfect solution. But I feel pretty concretely about these two stipulations going forward:

1. Unrestricted use of or cultivation of on one's property or in the home.

2. No sale to or use by a person under 18.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Beware the "blue seeds of death."

 

[marvdmartian]

So it will make you happy for a little while, then suddenly the buzz will just stop working?? :sneaky:

 

[Jhhnn]

Prohibition has stood on the basis of fear of the unknown for a long time. CO legalization changes that in a profound way. Authoritarians can no longer rely on invocation of the boogeyman to hold sway when real facts are available.

With complicity from the Obama Admin, we're compiling them every day, revealing the truth, quietly obliterating 70 years of lies & disinformation. Three years will be more than enough time to accomplish that task, show how well our negotiated Peace in the Marijuana War works for us. That will shortly become an extremely attractive proposition for the rest of the country & the world.

We'll never go back. It would require a vote of the People of Colorado to rescind A64, something that just won't happen. Even if a future Admin shuts down Retail, highly unlikely, the personal growing provisions of A64 have made cannabis culture a permanent part of life in Colorado.