Wow, very powerful answer ![:rocket: :rocket:](https://forum.growersnetwork.org/images/emoji/twitter/rocket.png?v=12)
I have done some research on you, let me know if I must delete, but you based in Portugal?
Yes, I live in Lisbon and I’m from Brazil. Actually I just tarted to follow your LinkedIn, thanks again for the support!
I have a numer uno contact for you, that is already working in the journalist, cannabis scene and travels between South America, portugal and South Africa. Journalists are a very good start to your vision, they get your word out and if on your side can be a world of good in the arsenal of weapons you will need to make this a success.
Please, if you can connect us, it would be a bless ![:pray:t4: :pray:t4:](https://forum.growersnetwork.org/images/emoji/twitter/pray/4.png?v=12)
I like your style ( I will elaborate ), but just know that you cant do this all yourself. you need to build community!!!
Food + Music + Sport x effort - blood - sweat / tears = cannabis counter culture.
It just confirm to me that I thinking right. I only really see it happening if we can build a community interested to be together making cannabis reallity not a crime.
I like the way you are thinking about this, but its like " eating an elephant with a teaspoon.
Yeah, I need to face that. It kinda of freezes me, the process of create a cannabis brand that have a message behind it. And then be able to have a crew to dream big like that.
I’m from Amazonas, I’ve been personally trying to connect the dots between my ancestrality (indigenous, etc), my way of see life and cannabis. I feel that it can bee a good start to build a brand with personallity and authenticity.
But I’ll describe better in one of the next replies.
Personally I thought Portugal had liberal cannabis laws: " Medical cannabis was approved in 2018 and regulated in 2019 in Portugal - the first country in the world to decriminalise the recreational use of all drugs in 2001. Medicines, preparations and substances based on the cannabis plant for “medicinal purposes” are legal.21 Apr 2024"
Exactly. Culturaly Portugal is really open to cannabis, even the elder people. But the legislation still having a lot of conservative folks saying the word. And we still fighting to legalize it. IBut I feel that we can legalise during the next 5 years, certainly. It is a big “why” to be trying to put my love for cannabis in some movement now. Would I reach my dream of pay my bills totally from Cannabis?
Cannabis education and activism are vital to draw your community. Personally I would start with a ebook of sorts, a free book that could spark interest for your kind of people. Be careful of too much activism as everything above costs money, takes time and resources.
First and foremost, is to write a business plan, a plan that you can use and change as you go forward. Bottom-line is you need to make money to sustain this venture.
I never have built a brand/company etc. It has been my dream and now is the moment. My current status is strungling to start to grow my cannabis again (I have a complete set to plant hydroponic weed) and trying to create a brand into instagram to promote some events through the Meetup app.
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Should I first create a brand or start to make the events even without a brand? I mean, sometimes is only necessary to call a couple of friends, make some photos/videos, bring it to instagram as content and repeat… Until I have a clearer vision of my brand (Identity, style, mission, etc). Any opinion?
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I also considered to hire a Designer (friend of mine) to create the first concept of the brand but I’m really in doubt if I should already put money in something that I only see in my mind. Therefore, do you think that the branding is crucial to start to get traction?
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[Other project but can have some connection] What do you think about cannabis in tech? 4 years ago I started an automation project with my friend (we are engineers) for hydroponic system enviosioning to create a growers social media based on data from your grows equipped by smart devices (that we were building to after create the social media). We never had the discipline to really finish a prototype, but we still having the desire to make it happens. Do you se any value on this kinda o techy stuff for growers as a business and to create a community?
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Thinking on your experience, what would be a MVP for a cannabis event like this one that I shared? Pick only one theme a focus on that? Or go more as a party with music, informative session and a lot of cannabis stuff?
Created several brands, businesses, lost more money than I have made, but glad to say as of two days ago, I smoked my first constitutionally legal joint. Our president signed the Cannabis bill, its not perfect, but its legal to smoke. Personally I would still consider looking at going the NORML international chapter route, its the oldest cannabis activism brand ( 52+ years ) in the world with several chapters worldwide, not always necessary to reinvent the wheel and you can immediately have access to a worldwide network of activists.
I will verify it, thanks for sharing ![:facepunch:t4: :facepunch:t4:](https://forum.growersnetwork.org/images/emoji/twitter/facepunch/4.png?v=12)
And again, thank you so much for being here also motivating me to embrace this project!