watch marijuana inc a cnbc production. you will see there is a market for it. so much that the tri county area in north cali would go under without it.
cfRas Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. -- siddhartha gautama On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:09 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As for marijuana, I don't think that it has as much big business >> potential. > > But this is the land of the opportunist. If there's a niche, there's > an entrepreneur willing to fill it. > >> People don't tend to smoke as much pot as tobacco (most >> people at least). > > If it were marketed like cigarettes were before the 80's you don't > think consumption would increase? > >> Secondly, it is much more difficult to grow your own tobacco >> than it is your own pot. Marijuana is a weed and grows easily all over >> the place. Combine those two things and I think it makes it likely to >> be more of a boutique business than tobacco. > > I know next to nothing about the stuff... only recently did I actually > realize what it smelled like and even now I'm not 100% certain. > >> But down on the >> personal consumption part, I just don't see marijuana developing >> companies the size of RJ Reynolds. > > See, I would look at it from a different perspective. Think about > milk. Up here (western NY) there are lots of dairies that all sell > their milk to a co-op. The co-op in turn actually handles the > distribution to businesses that sell the product. If marijuana is so > easy to produce, farmers might consider going the same route for their > delivery. There are co-ops that are then bought by companies or that > incorporate themselves. > > Maybe I'm thinking too much into this, looking too far down a > potential time line. I've been designing a new app today so that may > be what's causing me to mind's eye everything today. > > Hatton > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:287230 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
