{"id":130491,"date":"2016-04-25T23:43:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T05:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/25\/patents-profits-and-pot.html"},"modified":"2016-05-02T22:13:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T04:13:21","slug":"patents-profits-and-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/25\/patents-profits-and-pot.html","title":{"rendered":"Patents, profits, and pot"},"content":{"rendered":"

The gradual but (to my mind) inexorable spread of legalized marijuana is going to generate business white papers for decades. Here we have a product that was widespread but utterly covert in production, slowly but surely becoming legal and accepted — and the various vices of modern American business, from intellectual property spats to corporate take-overs, are suddenly intersecting with a bunch of folk who range from sleepy growers to criminal drug-producers. <\/p>\n

My prediction is that in 20-30 years, pot as an industry will resemble the alcohol industry: multi-national manufacturers and holding companies dominating the business and gobbling up smaller firms; craft artisans creating local reputations and then either selling out or struggling to stay afloat; debates over "Big Pot" hiding the effects of marijuana; PSAs about same; blue laws making marijuana more (or less) legally available to people in various states, with appropriately weird restrictions ("may be sold at gas stations, but not on Sunday").<\/p>\n

Interesting times to watch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nWhat a Looming Patent War Could Mean for the Future of America’s Marijuana Industry<\/a><\/span>
\nThere is growing concern in the American marijuana industry “about what may happen on the intellectual property frontier if and when legalization spreads across the country,” Greg Walters writes at…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The gradual but (to my mind) inexorable spread of legalized marijuana is going to generate business white papers for decades. Here we have a product that was widespread but utterly covert in production, slowly but surely becoming legal and accepted — and the various vices of modern American business, from intellectual property spats to corporate … Continue reading “Patents, profits, and pot”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,79,371],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-media-intellectual-property","category-war-on-drugs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32378,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/01\/yeah-well-its-greenwood-village.html","url_meta":{"origin":130491,"position":0},"title":"Yeah, well, it's Greenwood Village","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 1-Feb-13 11:36pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I mean, really? \u00a0Possession and use of pot is so desperate a moral issue to the City Fathers\/Mothers\/Nannies that not only are you banning its use on city property, but you're defining city property as all streets and sidewalks?(Hmmm. 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