Ok, thanks for the quick answer.
What happens if the price doesn't stablize right away or whales smash it down the way they always do when a coin looks to really take off?
Do the people still get their marajuana even if it means the devs take a hit (at least in terms of theoretical street price).
You're going to attract a pack of FUDsters, trolls and everything else trooping in at the last minute if only to crash the price, get cheap weed and then sell it.
You might have to get through a couple of weeks of this before enough of the general public comes in (hopefully for your lot) and drowns out the manipulators in a deluge of cash.
Just looking in over here ... something I don't get. The whole deal is that the dev thinks the price will cover his expenses starting on the 20th in particular and in general? If some idiot whale dumps "on the news" and the price tanks he's willing to eat the cost to keep the 1 gram = 1 cann thing going? He could just dump his part and chive out at any time too, right? Not saying he would but it wouldn't be the first time. Any wanker can put up a picture of a little girl and pull in the sympathy. I want to know possibilities. Is it that the actual cost to grow a gram of pot is essentially nothing and that and that he feels he can still eek some profit or break even no matter what (forgetting about the $15.00 per gram average price in the US while the project steam up?) He's growing his own for this on his own farms, right? And presumably planning selling a got bit of that the usual way at the usual cost to keep the lights on? There's those who think a few questions is FUD, this isn't that. I don't mind coming in late to the party and turning 10 cents into 15 dollars over and over. Better than coming in early and tossing away hundreds on a bag as I've learnt the hard way. Looking forward to what your community has to say. Don't really have time to go through the forum and all what with the rocket ships and the like. Bitcointalk is a bloody awful source of information the way it is.
Once the POT (Proof of transaction, I just came up with that, lol) is done then we will know everything for sure. People will see the POT and jump on board knowing that the company is indeed backing their order. This should bring the price up to a stable price and knowing that it can be backed, should not drop below that. This is increased exponentially once patients see the POT and realize they can get a couple years worth of medicine for a couple hundred dollars (and I'm sure Dev will be selling the coin at the event.) Those people in turn will want to tell their friends about the deal before its too late and etc leading into a snowball up to stable price. The whole forum is waiting for the POT before it takes off to it's true value (I predict $10-15) until then we will see the risk takers investing to get the cheap coins and on the 20th the 'safe' investors should start coming in too.
Oh and they would just hold the coins until they hit the proper price and wouldn't lose any money