1. Both the recreational and medical industries are treated unfairly and constantly censored & deleted on multiple social media platforms. For very dumb reasons.

For the majority of #Cannabis related companies, getting flagged, censored or even flat out deleted over 1 or 2 posts is quite common these days, regardless if the account is that of legal cannabis or not affects this very little. Now most of us would be alright with illegal drug sales being handled this way, but it has now been years since marijuana has become much more than a simple street drug for most of America, and soon the entire world. So why are the major players such as Facebook & Instagram constantly getting rid of entire profiles, some of which have well over 100-500 thousand followers, if its about cannabis, it is not welcomed.

This needs to stop! There is no good reason for this to be going on, but I have an idea that I feel like could not only solve this issue but really help Steem break into a whole new market as well.  

2. The market for cannabis social media has been proven in the past and is constantly growing.

For years most of us cannabis enthusiasts had to be semi low profile in a world where you were shunned for being a smoker or patient, but over the past 10 years not only has the amount of marijuana smokers increased significantly, so has the acceptance of the overall lifestyle, which has in turn brought quite the upsurge in cannabis themed social media posts. 

With no end in sight to the current account deleted fiasco that has been plaguing the industry for years, I think it may be up to Steem community to take up an initiative much like @Zappl has done, but this time launch a cannabis themed step child of Steemit.com and focus it on imagery and blogging all under a semi professional but playfully stoner-ish brand.

3. Why not just rely on using Hashtags like #Cannabis & #Marijuana on Steemit.com? Why do we need a new website?

While I love the community we have using these hashtags, the way Steemit.com is designed does not focus on 1 or 2 main concepts, instead it is a platform filled with articles and information from all around the world, what I am suggesting here is more of a way to bring all the cannabis social media users into the Steem blockchain, while still letting a unique community be born, that can focus on not only a platform for it's specific users, but ways to further improve the world with the power of Steem being used for Cannabis advocacy.

Basically, if a separate website is created under a separate brand, it will grow much faster and people will be able to relate much easier, also having it being a specifically cannabis themed project takes away the scary crypto currency aspect for these users as that takes a back seat to it being cannabis focused, which every stoner and cannabis lover can get behind, man.

4. The future of Cannabis Social Media is in a cannabis focused social platform that cares about users above all else, aka Steemit, or maybe Tokeit.com? 

The concept here really starts to shine when you remember that nothing can be censored on Steem, therefore noone will ever have to worry about randomly losing 100k followers ever again, because who wants to lose years of work because a company decided they don't like what you like? It's a rather crappy feeling waking up the dreaded "Your account has been deactivated" memo... it has gotten so bad many shops, grows, influencers and so on have made multiple back up accounts to back up their back ups just in case, which is such a waste of everyones time, energy and life...

The timing is ripe for such a project, MassRoots attempted to take over the Instagram side of things but seems to be having an identity crises to me and has more bots than real users from what I can tell, or people that just spam photos, so having this website be semi focused on content creation and not just images would be very useful as well, perhaps with some sort of @Zappl -esque touch in there as well.

5. Think about it, all of us could extend our marijuana budgets just by posting product reviews on this website, and so on! /mindblown

Yea thats right, you could literally buy your favorite products, review them, share them with the world and then get upvotes aka funding in return for providing quality content about your product, possibly even earning more than you paid for the product itself! Now thats what I call the future. 

What do you guys think? Should someone with proper experience try their hand at a project like this? Would it be huge? I sure think so.. Let's hear your thoughts on a #SteemitCannabis project!

//Did you see my other posts from this week?

Should I (or you) go to Steemfest 2017? (November 1st-5th - Lisbon, Portugal) The answer is yes.

https://steemit.com/steemfest/@decentralizd/should-i-or-you-go-to-steemfest-2017-november-1st-5th-lisbon-portugal-the-answer-is-yes

My Zappl-Features idea 2/2: The ultimate trending page, with mockups.

https://steemit.com/zappl-features/@decentralizd/my-zappl-features-idea-2-2-the-ultimate-trending-page-with-mockups

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