Today in Businessweek an article
discusses how many workers in the Silicon Valley
have medical Mariana cards. Apparently, “People just don’t care,” if you smoke,
“you don’t need to hide it” and if you don’t smoke, “you accept [the fact] that
there are people around you who do.” However, it is not used illegally as
buyers in California
are allowed to have medical marihuana cards. Palliative Health is a medical
marijuana dispensary in San Jose right in the
heart of the Silicon Valley and sells
everything from marijuana infused sodas to chocolates. 40% of Palliative
Health’s customers are engineers, programmers, as well as other tech workers
who get back and whist pain from programming 15 hours a day.
MedMar Healing
Center, which is only a
half-mile away from Adobe, offers marijuana infused chocolates known as “Veda
Chews.” Apparently, they do not give workers a “high” but do provide them with
“the mental clarity…and pain relief” allowing them work more effectively. There are even infused breath sprays available
The big tech firms are less happy
about it and do not formally approve, however, companies are finding it harder
and harder to find employees that can pass pre-employment drug tests. However,
as the drug does not inhibit tech workers intelligence or value it seems like
it will stay popular. And as for the distributes, they will probably be
getting more and more business.
I wonder if it is possible to patent a certain strain of marijuana and how that would play into the competitive landscape of the medical marijuana industry. Also it is super easy to get a medical card in California - there are 'doctors' out there whose sole practice is issuing them for whatever reason the patient can come up with
ReplyDeleteCompanies try to drug-up all the employee. So, they can work longer hours! I saw many tech companies has a full fridge of Red Bull.
ReplyDeleteSo if you make a marijuana infused breath spray, is that patentable? It's simply a different use of something that already has many uses.
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