{"id":223128,"date":"2016-06-17T09:02:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T09:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=223128"},"modified":"2016-06-17T09:02:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T09:02:49","slug":"microsoft-to-help-legal-marijuana-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=223128","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to help legal marijuana trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Microsoft has teamed up with California-based technology start-up Kind Financial, which helps businesses and government agencies track sales of legalised marijuana &#8220;from seed to sale&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first-ever partnership of its kind for Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Kind has been selling its marijuana tracking software to businesses and governments for some three years.<\/p>\n<p>The start-up will now be able work on Microsoft&#8217;s government cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Kind&#8217;s software, which is called Agrisoft Seed to Sale, &#8220;closes the loop between marijuana-related businesses, regulatory agencies, and financial institutions,&#8221; a press release said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/49AC\/production\/_90006881_ruldzgrm.jpg\" alt=\"Microsoft sign\" width=\"643\" height=\"362\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><span class=\"story-image-copyright\">REUTERS<\/span><\/span><\/figure>\n<p>Microsoft told the BBC in an emailed statement that it supported &#8220;government customers and partners to help them meet their missions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kind Financial is building solutions on our government cloud to help these agencies regulate and monitor controlled substances and items, and manage compliance with jurisdictional laws and regulations,&#8221; the Microsoft spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is based in Washington where cannabis is legal.<\/p>\n<p>Kind said that Microsoft&#8217;s cloud platform was the only one of its kind &#8220;designed to meet government standards for the closely regulated cannabis compliance programmes&#8221;, The Weed Blog reported.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft told the Weed Blog it was looking forward to working with Kind &#8220;to help our government customers launch successful regulatory programs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has teamed up with California-based technology start-up Kind Financial, which helps businesses and government agencies track sales of legalised marijuana &#8220;from seed to sale&#8221;. It is the first-ever partnership of its kind for Microsoft. Kind has been selling its marijuana tracking software to businesses and governments for some three years. The start-up will now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":223129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/223129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}