Meet the Marijuana Snack Kings of the Future (opens in new tab)

Yes - There is a combination of technology, new businesses, entrepreneurship, and new trends in society. There's also some development challenges, and recognizing a new market.

I'll agree with a previous poster - slashdot, digg, have pretty much dropped off my reading habits - HN, NYT, and techcrunch (and sporadically groklaw and salon.com) are now my web distractions. Not every article can be about erlang.

What are you talking about? This (appearently) is a trend in startups and entrepreneurship. I, for one, am interested.

I don't know: HN is rapidly replacing my feed reader; and I think the news is interesting in its own right (may not have anything to do with "hacking", but still).

Are you afraid that we'll look bad if someone sees us?

Personally, I like seeing marijuana dosage turning into a matter of engineering.

Struck a nerve, all I was saying is that this article is not really interesting compared to what normally makes the front page of HN. I think the fact it has to do with Marijuana made people just up-vote it. If you actually read the article, it is the equivalent of two dudes talking about opening a bake shop.

As below, medical marijuana (and other) laws are rapidly changing the landscape. Although this is a risky area for entrepreneurship, it's probably passing that point where it's easier to obtain forgiveness than permission.

This is why growers and retailers in the Bay area enthusiastically supported the recent pot tax passed in Oakland and are supporting a California pot tax - as soon as you start providing revenue to the government, you start looking respectable.

Medical Marijuana.

Just as you can legally smoke marijuana, you can legally grow it. All they're doing is growing (with a license) and cooking it into different foods, then selling it to medical marijuana dispensaries.