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Medicinal dispensaries: controversial e-commerce, Is it ready for its own Amazon.com?

Medical Marijuana is California's biggest cash crop Generating sales estimated at $14 billion a year.

More and more people every day are realizing the advantages of e-commerce, including those interested in the medical marijuana industry. E-commerce is the wave of the future, and if you don’t have a website, there is a strong chance that potential customers will overlook your business.

With an efficient website and easy to use e-commerce system, your medical cannabis business will rise above the competition.

E-commerce is ideal for all aspects of the medical marijuana industry. It is an excellent resource for collectives, as you can sell all of your products (aside from the medicine itself) online, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. With the right design and e-commerce software backing your website, people will easily be able to find and buy your medical marijuana supplies, whether it is glass water pipes and medical marijuana related books or cannabis related products like hemp cosmetics.

There are millions of people shopping online at any moment, and a huge chunk of those people are interested in the medical marijuana industry and its related products. E-commerce lets people shop whenever they want, no matter where they are. While your physical business is limited to your local area, having a good looking, properly designed website will allow you to attract customers via the internet that you otherwise would never have. Also, good e-commerce software reduces processing errors, so your customers will get a more effective shopping experience.

The industry has challenges: Taxes, Invoices, Supply chain management, & Regulatory compliance.

PlainView Systems, a four-month-old Sonoma startup that aims to bring sophisticated business management tools to an industry that has only recently begun operating like one. "It's a business where everyone is very, very paranoid," PlainView's "compassionate care marketplace" is a B2B exchange for licensed providers of medical marijuana and their patients. Participants can band together to form growing collectives -- a legal requirement for those that want to sell pot -- and cut deals with other members to buy and sell their inventory. The system also helps sellers keep their records in order, generating invoices, sales reports and tax paperwork.

Note: My opinion on this subject is the U.S GOV’s laws & ethics must be the priority number one.

Source:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:J43bK5KHvdEJ:money.cnn.com/2010/01/12/smallbusiness/plainview_marijuana_marketplace/index.htm+medical+marijuana+e+commerce&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

PlainView Systems - http://www.plainviewccm.com/

Websites tools such as Magento - http://www.magentocommerce.com/

Protect bloggers around the world. How about that?

Interesting - Protect bloggers around the world. How about that?

Paris hosts cyber-shelter for battered bloggers

Paris-based media rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders on Thursday launched a virtual "anti-censorship shelter" to protect bloggers around the world from repressive authorities.

The group (RSF) unveiled a room in its Paris headquarters set aside for fugitive journalists or bloggers from abroad to drop in and blog with secure Internet connections using software that masks their online identity.

The project also offers to provide carefully selected bloggers in other countries with free access to secure, anonymous online connections to make it harder for authorities to pursue them for their work.

"This will allow them to connect to the Internet securely, to help them continue their work as bloggers," the secretary general of RSF Jean-Francois Julliard told AFP at the launch of what he called the "virtual shelter."

He admitted that determined governments could find ways round the masked Internet addresses, but said the project could still help responsible bloggers avoid arrest -- a trend which RSF says is on the rise.

"If the CIA or other government agencies like that want to get round it they can, but this will make things much more difficult," Julliard said.

RSF estimates that about 120 people are in jail throughout the world as punishment for blogging and other forms of online journalism, singling out countries such as China, Vietnam and Iran.

The project won support from an editor of the Chinese news blog boxun.com, who said two of the site's contributors have been jailed in China for publishing material online criticising the authorities there.

"It's important to get round censorship, for the Chinese people and for everybody" said the man, who is based outside China and asked to be identified only by his family name Wang.

This can be done "by using software etcetera... but the most important aim is to convince the Chinese to overcome their fear."

Hello iBusiness, is the iPad the next big toy for toddlers?

Even though it’s a toy with a grown-up price tag, it’s clear that kids and even toddlers have a natural knack for the iPad.

iMass: Priest develops missal application to let priests officiate with iPad

ROME - An Italian priest has developed an application that will let priests celebrate Mass with an iPad on the altar instead of the regular Roman missal.

The Rev. Paolo Padrini, a consultant with the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Social Communications, said Friday the free application will be launched in July in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Latin.