How #Steemit could transform Cannabis Marketing and force others to play along instead of deleting accounts..

in steem •  8 years ago  (edited)

Marijuana Businesses NEED to know about Steemit, all around the world! Help them stop fighting the Facebook/Instagram war and just abandon ship altogether.

As Facebook, Instagram continue to turn their backs on legal cannabis businesses, Steemit can quickly step in and save the day.

As we've seen in many articles recently such as this one on fortune.com Cannabis business all around the world have been facing backlash from social media platforms such as Facebook & Instagram. All too frequently are accounts deleted, banned, censored or outright hacked with no recourse. I have personally seen Instagram feeds of some of the most influential and popular companies in my state be deleted overnight, never to return. Most of the time these companies have created back ups as a measure against these policies, but more often than not they either don't come back at all, or they are forced to start a brand new account and start from yes, ZERO followers all over again. And that is not right.

Cannabis brands need a safe, censorship resistant social media platform for their content, marketing & Steemit could be that...

https://massroots.com/ popped up a while back, and at first glance it seemed like the perfect tool to sidestep he whole Instagram policing content problem, but soon we realized that in order to get everyone to use Massroots, everyone would also need to already be an avid marijuana enthusiast, so it sort of flopped for that purpose, but it's still a wonderful cannabis themed social network for cannabis aficionados to use from time to time, but this is by no means a full blown social media platform for EVERYONE that also includes cannabis users, its JUST a cannabis network of friends and so on. We need something more open sourced, more censorship resistance, content agnostic, something like... Steemit!

As a Cannabis Enthusiast and Legal Marijuana Marketing & Creative Director in Seattle, Washington. I will be using Steemit on the job 24/7 from here on out. Whats the point of using Instagram when they are just going to wipe my feed one day anyways? Facebook too, good riddance!

I hope everyone will tell your local shops about Steemit, all your cannabis loving friends as well! I hope one day to have an ecosystem where we can all freely share our opinions about any subject, including subjects that may be a bit more 'out there' such as cannabis, in a free transparent environment.

Thank you @Ned and @Dan for accidentally solving my, and every other cannabis businesses problem with Instagram, Facebook and everything that is wrong with social media in general. You guys rocks!


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Mining on steemit

Lets STEEM some WEED, where facebook and instagram fails, we succeed.

Love the idea. The tide is turning and if cannabis enthusiasts can make this platform their home, free on censorship then I'm wondering what other groups can follow suit.

It does open up a can of worms for some fringe groups but the people will decide to flag or upvote.

Right?? Im planning on showing a few cannabis business owners i know this concept asap.

I agree completely. I took a step out in dangerous waters by making my first post about weed. But that proves that Steemit is once and for all about valuable content and not about being socially correct. Great post!

I agree! Talking about cannabis has gone from being a really tabu subject to everyone acknowledging it and it's many uses. Why should anyone decide what's right for you? :)

save the day from marijuana !!!

totally agreed, it's nice to see so many cannabis enthusiasts in here!

I have just created a new post thinking it would be interesting to know cannabis prices around the world https://steemit.com/marijuana/@fumeta/this-is-how-much-weed-you-can-buy-for-usd3-in-guatemala-what-about-your-country
I hope you guys want to participate!

Great article! I'm looking for some attention on my post about starting a legal marijuana factory in OR. Thanks!

https://steemit.com/marijuana/@groovy/invest-in-legal-marijuana-with-north-wests-finest-llc-from-oregon

All I could think of was a new way to extract a concentrate using steem lol

lets make this the Maarijuana legalization Nr1 site, at least it would be good for something

Somebody needs to invite Snoop Dog over here, seriously

I am a glass blower that has started steemit because of posts like this. Thank you for helping bring more like minded people. This is an amazing community and I am very happy to he a part of it. For thoae that have not noticed in the Marijuana section I have already started a give away of over 100$ worth of glass pipes for free and tried to show of my work. I also gave a basic intro to glass.
https://steemit.com/marijuana/@cryptocameo/hello-world-i-am-cam-the-glassblower-and-entrepreneur-let-s-get-started-by-giving-a-few-things-away

Sadly i havent picked up much steem on that yet, I havent seen another giveaway done before so i wonder...

make sure everyone participates in the first steemit lottery

https://steemit.com/money/@nabilov/the-first-steem-lottery-hosted-by-member-nabilov#comments

Hi your post made think about the Steemit concept a little more clearly, I think... https://steemit.com/steemit/@jholmes91/why-i-believe-in-steemit-s-success

Similar to SP, SMD tokens cannot be purchased directly on an external exchange. SMD are primarily earned through contributing but can be purchased by converting STEEM tokens to SMD tokens.

Actually Steem Dollars can now purchased on external exchanges !
https://poloniex.com/exchange#btc_sbd
https://bittrex.com/Market/Index?MarketName=BTC-SBD

PS Abbreviation of SBD = Steem Backed Dollars
or just SD = Steem Dollars (not SMD please edit)

Yep. Looks like hemp might fuel just about every block-chain's killer app or apps.

Down with Facebook and Instagram! Long live Steemit!!!!