I've been a grower, a dispensary founder, a cannabis tech PM, and a stoner sci-fi author. Just found this community & I'm looking to give away some cool stuff and build mutually beneficial partnerships.

Longtime industry person here, 15yr reddit lurker, first time posting here.

Wanted to introduce myself and float a partnership idea for any dispensary owners or other cannabis operators in the community.

Quick background: I ran a cannabis delivery dispensary and grow op from 2010–2015 across Arizona and Washington (Northwest Organic Medicine), produced flower, bubble hash, and capsules under our own brand, and have spent the last 4.5 years as a Sr. Product Manager at the internet's best cannabis marketplace, owning the entire consumer web experience. I've been on pretty much every side of this industry from seed to screen.

Two things I'm putting out there that you may find valuable:

1. Since 2015, I've written stoner comedy sci-fi novels under HIFI Press Books (hifipressbooks.com). Think absurdist, cannabis-positive humor fiction. "Star Trek meets Cheech & Chong".

I'm genuinely interested in partnering with dispensaries for in-store promos: gifting books with purchases, consignment sales, business-card-sized inserts with a QR code to download the first book for free, that kind of thing. If you run a shop and want to offer customers something fun and different, let's talk.

1. I built Strain Passport (strainpassport.com), a free, privacy-first cannabis strain journal PWA. No account required, nothing stored in the cloud, works offline. Built it for consumers who want to track their strains without handing their data to a big platform, logging in, etc. Could be a useful thing to share with your customers. I offer it 100% free to the world— I just wanna get it into the hands of stoners like me who would find it useful.

Not here to spam — just introducing myself and seeing if any of these ideas resonate with anyone in the community.

Happy to answer questions about the books, the tech side of things, the operator years, or anything else.

Live High & Prosper!