SAN FRANCISCO, July 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The Green
Exchange, Inc., the developer's of "Loud Cannabis"
(www.tryloud.com), the world's first HIPAA compliant service that
connects marijuana growers directly to patients, announced today
that the story of their ongoing battle with tech giant Google, was
featured in Yahoo Finance. The article was titled, "For cannabis
apps, the road to the app store is paved with rejection."
"Google's Play and Apple's app stores are home to hundreds of
cannabis-related apps, but one that aims to cut the middlemen by
connecting growers with customers in California — which legalized medical marijuana
in 1996 — just got yanked from the virtual shelf," the Yahoo
article reported.
The Loud Cannabis App was created to provide a "farm-to-table"
direct link between growers and medical marijuana patients, as well
as a safer and smarter alternative to other delivery app services
that utilize 3rd party drivers whom are often unscreened
and do not undergo background checks.
The mission of Loud Cannabis is to serve a co-op of growers,
along with medical marijuana patients who want the freshest,
organic cannabis available.
The app, which debuted on Google Play last summer, was recently
kicked out of the Google store. "We had no indication they were
going to pull the rug out from under our feet," Loud Cannabis
founder and CEO Josh Artman
said.
Google's Play Store instructs developers to "Keep it legal,"
however this is a quandary since marijuana is legal in California, where Loud Cannabis operates.
Furthermore, Google Play Store has approved marijuana dispensary
locator apps such as Weedmaps and Leafly.
According to Artman, some of the cannabis apps that are allowed
on Google have their roots in the Silicon Valley, and even have
Google executives on their Board of Directors.
"There is definitely a double standard here," Artman stated. "We
don't have Apple or Google executives on our board of directors,
and that has hurt us," he added. "We were founded by independent
farmers, not venture capitalists or tech millionaires."
Google declined to comment, according to the Yahoo report.
To view the Yahoo article, visit: http://yhoo.it/1IMmYns
For more information, contact Loud Cannabis at: 510-982-6052, or
visit: www.tryloud.com
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Twitter: @tryloud
Website: m.tryloud.com
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SOURCE The Green Exchange, Inc.