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Re:Show HN: Meadow – Medical cannabis delivered to your door by onedev on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @08:11PM (#8456570)
Of course! I completely agree with you, but at the same time a large number of people also just like to get high, and there's nothing wrong with that either. In fact it's so incredibly easy to get a medical card that I'm sure a very large percentage of card holders just like to get high (again, nothing wrong with that, we should 100% legalize it imo).

Anyway, I'm just saying that when you start a service like this, it's effectively an uphill battle against public perception (for now) and I think these guys are doing public messaging the right way.

Even when you go to their website they say "cannabis based medicine" not "cannabis" or "cannabis products".

It's what they are signaling about their service and about the product through their delicate use of language that's interesting.

It's a stark contrast to real doctors who don names like "THE 420 DOCTOR" (I'm not making this up), or services that might choose names like "Speedweed".

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Re:Show HN: Meadow – Medical cannabis delivered to your door by maroonblazer on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @09:05PM (#8456715)
Ditto for the actual product names. Selling a strain of cannabis with the name "Girl Scout Cookies" will do little to help earn the tolerance of anyone who might be on the fence about the legality of cannabis. I recognize getmeadow doesn't name the product, so they're limited in how they can effect this. It's something the category needs to address though.
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Re:Show HN: Meadow – Medical cannabis delivered to your door by jsonmetaschema on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @11:31PM (#8457050)
Not to mention Green Crack and Alaskan Thunder Fuck.

Strain names are all behind closed doors where sellers aren't trying to convince anybody of anything.

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Re:Show HN: Meadow – Medical cannabis delivered to your door by fit2rule on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @04:31AM (#8457603)
This could well be a weak backdoor in the whole attempt to gain legitimacy, though, because .. after all .. if you're describing the effects of various strains in an interview of the patient, guiding them towards a preferred result .. aren't you practicing medicine in that regard? Are dispensaries allowed to do that? (I am truly ignorant.)
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