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Apple And Google Just Approved The Global Rollout For High There, Tinder For Marijuana Fans

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 04/15/2015 - 09:25

It’s been called “Tinder for marijuana users,” but Todd Mitchem hopes his app will be much more. Now, the founder of what may be the first social network for cannabis fans has passed a critical early hurdle–as Apple’s and Google’s own rules about the industry evolve.

When High There launched just two months ago promising to connect people for whom marijuana consumption is a key lifestyle trait, it had a key restriction in the App Store and in Android’s Google Play: the app could only be downloaded by users in states in which the cannabis industry had been made legal. Anywhere else or internationally, and High There’s geo-fencing would lock a user out.

High There still gained some early traction in New York, California and Colorado, where the company is based, attracting about 41,000 downloads in its first six weeks, with 6,000 people active on the app on any given day....

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2015/04/14/apple-and-google-approve-high-there-to-go-global/

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