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Trees Joins Growing Alt-Payments Industry for Medical Marijuana

Submitted by Marijuana News on Mon, 08/22/2016 - 01:33

Bitcoin-accepting Trees, a former medical cannabis dispensary that made headlines with its vision to deliver dank buds via drone, has pivoted towards becoming a marketplace in conjunction with building a payment processor. Its emphasis is on allowing cannabis businesses to become their own banks through blockchain technology.

Trees: Alternative Medicine and Alternative Currency

Trees, located in San Francisco, offered a luxurious cannabis kit that included vaporizers, dabs and other, newer cannabis products until pivoting towards the cannabis payments market towards the beginning of 2016. The firm previously made headlines when it announced it’d like to deliver marijuana by drones.

Trees has made a name for itself in the Bitcoin community, with Founder Marshall Hayner attending conferences to discuss his belief that Bitcoin is exactly what the cannabis industry needs in order to get around a hostile banking industry.

“There is going to be a change in the banking...

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