"We reached out to OpenTHC because we wanted to own more of our infrastructure and control costs" -- yea, that's what we do! Glad you could find us!
OpenTHC
Open source Technology for Hemp and Cannabis
Seed-to-Sale, Track-and-Trace, B2B Marketplace, POS, LIMS, helpful people
Good news everyone! We've finally been able to drop the legacy #metrc v1 (2015) API code and only have to deal with v2 (2023). Nice to clean-out the old junk.
It's been a busy summer, and we're still humming along and growing.
If you're just joining us this autumn, check out how we have navigated through the ups and downs of our industry in our comprehensive guide to the OpenTHC platform.
Productivity gains we would be making with tools like gemini or claude cli are being wiped out by application crashes from inefficient methods of accessing the FS.
AI isn't changing development for us, but definitely has introduced the same old engineering problems we solved with work culture.
That is why we build open source technology.
That is why we push the government to use open source.
"The question isn't whether Western societies will adopt social credit ...
The question is whether we'll be transparent and accountable about it
or continue pretending our algorithmic reputation scores are just neutral technology."
https://www.thenexus.media/your-phone-already-has-social-credit-we-just-lie-about-it/
Google Launches 20-day cannabis advertising program in Canada
https://news.openthc.org/news/view/01K3RSDNY24B5SVKKMYQHBQQE2
Had a client concerned today because they thought the recent outage caused by Twilio and Verizon was an unhealthy sign for our business.
The reality is that these platforms have a radical bias against cannabis businesses.
Bias and conservative radicalization are what is actually hurting commerce. #PhoneSupportDiaries
D.C. whenever they feel like jerking cannabis licensees around (again)
Cultivators need to have a foreign buyer for their entire crop lined up before they can get a license. This raises the barrier to entry significantly and creates a fascinating regulatory environment.
We're working on a full analysis of this new market for the OpenTHC Wiki. Stay tuned.
Sri Lanka moves forward with cannabis cultivation, but, this isn't a typical legalization model.
The catch? It's EXPORT ONLY.
https://timelinedaily.com/world/sri-lanka-to-grow-cannabis-grants-licenses-to-foreign-investors
We’ve been digging into the Schaffer Library of Drug Policy.
It’s full of moments like this that show how politics, not science, has often regressed the conversation for 50+ years.
Check it out: https://wiki.openthc.org/Shaffer_Library
TIL a wild story from the history of cannabis policy.
In 1972, President Nixon appointed the Shafer Commission to get data to back his anti-drug agenda.
But the bipartisan commission went off-script. They unanimously recommended DECRIM.
Nixon was so mad he buried the report.
Does your state have consumer protection laws on stickers?
Have these laws/rules had an impact on your business marketing?
If you could change one marketing rule in your state, what would you change?
It wasn't perfect, but it did allow the State to continue operations while their business team sorted out the procurement process.
Where is that reporting stop-gap in NYS?
The move to continue to require inventory tracking, while taking away the ability to report inventory to the regulator is not a novel choice.
Oklahoma did something similar in Oklahoma when OMMA did not have a vendor-managed solution in place.
State laws continued to require licensees track their inventory, while OMMA hosted a survey-style reporting solution.
Until there is someone in office that is better for business, we can just leave that gate closed, and deprive the scorpion from of a chance to cross.
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