{"id":49847,"date":"2014-12-23T15:14:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T15:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siccness.net\/?p=49847"},"modified":"2015-05-21T00:48:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T00:48:24","slug":"taylor-gangs-berner-and-weedmaps-team-up-to-create-marijuana-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/taylor-gangs-berner-and-weedmaps-team-up-to-create-marijuana-com","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Gang\u2019s Berner and Weedmaps Team Up to Create Marijuana.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kicking off the New Year in typical Taylor Gang form, Taylor Gang rapper and San Francisco rap vet, Berner, is teaming up with\u00a0Weedmaps f<\/em>or a new business venture in response to\u00a0Instagram<\/em>\u00a0andFacebook\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0recent crack down on accounts.<\/p>\n

Hoping to start the \u201cInstagram of Marijuana\u201d on Marijuana.com, Weedmaps and Berner are hoping their new partnership will transform Marijuana.com into the definitive social platform and identity for cannabis businesses, key figures, and enthusiasts.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was one of the accounts that got deleted. I was fortunate enough to get my account back but many other community members have not been so lucky. This community is special to me and we believe in this plant and now Marijuana.com will unite and bring our people together,\u201d Berner said.<\/p>\n

The platform will look and function similarly to\u00a0Pinterest<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0Instagram<\/em>, in addition to a \u201cPowered by Weedmaps.com\u201d rating and review system for strains, shops and medical dispensaries.<\/p>\n

Dispensaries, brands, artists and consumers will be allowed to create profiles for free and post their favorite marijuana related content with no fear of censorship.<\/p>\n

In recent months, popular social media sites like\u00a0Facebook<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Instagram<\/em>\u00a0have begun deleting marijuana-related accounts reported by users for policy violations.<\/p>\n

Both social networks view cannabis as a \u201cdrug\u201d and many marijuana businesses have lost accounts and followers because of this crackdown.<\/p>\n

The site was designed to make the average consumer feel comfortable sharing their love of cannabis without violating a\u00a0Facebook<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0Instagram<\/em>\u00a0Term of Service (ToS).<\/p>\n

Berner, who is currently signed to Wiz Khalifa\u2019s Taylor Gang imprint is the progenitor of the famed Cookies marijuana strains, and images of the strain caused\u00a0Instagram<\/em>\u00a0to actually delete his accounts, thus the impetus for this new joint venture<\/p>\n

\u201cBerner is a perfect partner for us because he\u2019s not just a rapper looking to profit off the industry \u2014 he is deeply passionate about marijuana legalization and someone that has known, loved and respected marijuana since long before there was even an \u2018cannabis industry\u2019,\u201d\u00a0Weedmaps.com Co-Founder and CEO Justin Hartfield stated.<\/p>\n

In addition to the site\u2019s social aspect, the brand will continue to cover cannabis as a media outlet, expand into events, and start a documentary series.<\/p>\n

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Kicking off the New Year in typical Taylor Gang form, Taylor Gang rapper and San Francisco rap vet, Berner, is teaming up with\u00a0Weedmaps for a new business venture in response to\u00a0Instagram\u00a0andFacebook\u2019s\u00a0recent crack down on accounts. Hoping to start the \u201cInstagram of Marijuana\u201d on Marijuana.com, Weedmaps and Berner are hoping their new partnership will transform Marijuana.com […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[16002,23549,11771,88,14425,19098,797,19097],"class_list":["post-49847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bay-area-hip-hop","tag-bay-area-rap","tag-bay-area-rapper","tag-berner","tag-berner-rapper","tag-marijuana-com","tag-taylor-gang","tag-taylor-gangs-berner-and-weedmaps-team-up-to-create-marijuana-com"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}