Just stepping in for Deltanine to help keep the conversation going elsewhere, alot of these questions have been answered already in the thread
Dev, do you own your own dispensaries and that growing facility that you post pictures of?
The dev doesn't own any dispensaries, he is just a grower but he has a medical marijuana license. His license was posted in the thread earlier. Yes that is his facility.
And if so, will you be selling 1g for 1cann?
His special strain, CANNdy will be sold 1g for 1 CANN at least at Herball Wellness Inc. in Phoenix. The hope is to get more dispensaries to exchange their product for CANN.
http://herbalwellnesscenter.comWhat is your method of trying to get all the other dispensaries in legalized states to use Cann as a means of payment?
I can't speak to this but i'm sure the method is no different than doing any other business deal, meeting with them personally (and he states he has met with several dispenseries) and trying to convince them it would be profitable for both parties.
Wont there be some federal guidelines that might stand in the way?
No more or less for taking Bitcoin as payment for Cannabis. Even if there is some issues moving ahead, it is still a grey area legally and history has shown it is better to take action and beg forgiveness later because if you are intimidated by the feds for using cryptocurrencies you might as well get out of the crypto revolution now.
And why would other dispensaries use Cann, when they can use Bitcoin, which is much more established and well known, let alone already accepted by big companies/corps. I dont mean to be skeptical, but this idea seems way too good to be true.
This same question applies to ANY alt. You think 95% of the coins on bittrex or Mintpal will EVER be signficantly exchanged for any goods or service? Unless they have a plan for real world use, they are only good for pump and dumps, that's it, and can never hope to bring in any real money to add value to them. This anon race is especially going to hurt alot of people, how many anonymous currencies does one need? There are going to be alot of losses when the dark markets decide what their most trusted currency is and the majority of other anon coins, no matter how much hard work was put into coding them, will die off.
But back to why use CANN coin over Bitcoin, well the issue with pegging is trying to reduce volatility. If a dispensary decides to accept CANN, the hope is the currency won't significantly fluctuate in price if they choose to hold onto it longer than a few days or weeks before converting to fiat. If you are a small company who has to make payroll and keep a budget and ensure a certain amount of turnover monthly to pay out your employees, Bitcoin is a horrible choice to get paid in because it has proven to drop as much as 10-20% in just the course of 2 pay cycles sometimes. The volatility is good for day traders and speculators but not practical for daily business use. There is a reason companies don't pay their employees in gold or silver.
Also another reason to use CANN, it will offer a discount to patients who pay with it, no doubt the value of this discount will be priced into the value of the coin. However there can be no discount attached by using Bitcoin because no one who runs a business will want to give away 10% of a product in Bitcoin for instance if a customer pays with that.