xsinx wrote: Tue Jul 31, 2018 7:29 pm So lemme get this straight, you used your email on an internet business website and you are shocked and pissed that it got leaked to another company dealing with the same products. Not only are you pissed, but you are pissed at the company that took this opportunity to grow, instead of whatever company sold/gave the information in the first place.

The cherry on the cake is the fact those are 4+ month old threads on reddit.

/golfclap

xsinx wrote: Tue Jul 31, 2018 8:18 pm Lets not forget we're talking about illegal drug dealers here, this ain't Health Canada. I'm sure the gov dispensaries are going to have a set of rules to follow and most will abide by them for fear of losing their licence, etc.

I honestly don't see a problem with Grasslife (or any MOM) buying clients. It's standard stuff in pretty much all online businesses, I've seen it for software, clothing, whatever, it's all the same. Information is $$$.

xsinx wrote: Tue Jul 31, 2018 8:50 pm First off I'm talking as myself, giving my personal point of view in this thread so far. I'm helping as a moderator to keep the spammers out mostly, so don't give me more power or influence than I have. I'm not here to shut you down, just figured having a little joust of ideas was a better thing to do.

We might be both pulling to extremes. In the eyes of the law, they are drug dealers, not medicinal dipensaries. We can argue all we want, they are not registered businesses, paying taxes, etc. (there might be exceptions, but you get my point). With that in mind, I think us as consumers need to accept the fact we are buying this stuff outside the government bubble and it comes with pros and cons.

I'm not sure what else I can add, I mean if I were a MOM and I was offered to buy a list of clients I would in a snap if the price is right. There are many companies out there paying a large sum of their income in publicity to get new clients, so an opportunity like getting a client list as an online business is just about impossible to pass up. Selling the information a bit less honorable maybe, but I mean we're talking emails here, emails that have been used to conduct drug purchases in the past, they are already "soiled".

I don't think anyone is selling phone numbers and addresses, that I would have an issue with. There was a case I think it was on reddit earlier where someone said he got a weed related flyer in the mail to his name. That crosses the line because it falls straight into huge privacy concerns, it can easily lead to family members, neighbors, your postman, etc knowing you are a weed user. Even when weed is legal, it can still be a big stigma especially for workers that get tested for drugs or do jobs that totally forbid any use.