mklod

Ah, a man of sound first principles

there's some tautology in there

You should meet Dr David Casarett, Chief of Palliative Care at Duke. He was also very skeptical of medical cannabis.

>"When I first started this project, I really thought of medical marijuana as a joke"

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/07/14/42287697...

Flower is around 60% market share. And it's usually smoked.

By comparison, edibles are around 7% market share.

Source: Headset Cannabis Market Insights

I'm actively working on this. We've built lab equipment for academic researchers to run the ongoing study.

Further, second hand smoke from cannabis is worse than second hand smoke from tobacco!

>One minute of exposure to marijuana SHS substantially impairs endothelial function in rats for at least 90 minutes, considerably longer than comparable impairment by tobacco SHS.

DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.116.003858

Define what you need done in the most granular detail possible. Have a written specification document, if possible. This helps you figure out who you really need to hire, and makes tracking progress much easier.

Ask the right questions before hiring. Learn enough about the subject to ask good questions. Ask how they would solve an adjacent problem.

Set checkpoints for the contractor's work. Have the dev build something partial that you can test. Build another and test it. Integrate them and test them. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Learn the language, or else. You could get frustrated and waste time, or you could get fleeced. You can't effectively communicate with an engineer figuratively speaking another language.

And communication is everything, especially for remote work.