What am I vaping on: the dreaded game of unmarked carts

Let me run a scenario by you; you walk into a local supermarket drinks aisle and find shelves full of bottles marked “juice”. You resonate with the “JUICE” branding on one of them, grab a few bottles to try and all of them taste different despite looking virtually identical. Would you ever play this “Russian roulette” again? Probably not, and even if you did find the perfect taste profile for your taste buds, no shot you know what flavor it actually is or how to find it on your next trip to the supermarket. 

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Cannabis Legalization in 2021: Outlook Not So Good…

As a kid I often turned to my Magic 8 Ball when I was looking for the answers to all major decisions and found its responses to be amusing, but not always that helpful. The same can be said for all the predictions I have heard over the years when it comes to when there will be federal legalization of cannabis – outlook not so good.

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Zero Defects: Absolutes of Quality Management

A little bit of history never hurts: what is Zero Defects (or ZD)? ZD was a management-led program to eliminate defects in production lines, which gained brief popularity in American industry from 1964 to the early 1970s. Quality expert Philip Crosby later incorporated it into his “Absolutes of Quality Management“. Although applicable to any type of business, it was primarily used in supply chains where large quantities of components are purchased or manufactured. We’d like to dissect Crosby’s 4 proposed principles when it comes to Blinc’s supply chain. 

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