{"id":573,"date":"2003-05-12T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-12T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tashuk.wordpress.com\/2003\/05\/12\/573\/"},"modified":"2003-05-12T15:47:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-12T15:47:00","slug":"573","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/573","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis Delivery Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/itoke.co.uk\/service.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Well, one day perhaps. This not real yet, but they have ‘staked their webspace’ and it gives an idea of the possibilities ……… I was especially attracted that you would be able to get their service, at the end of a WAP phone<\/p>\n

iToke WAP <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Buy your cannabis online… (Independent, 30 October 2000) By Gail Robinson <\/i><\/p>\n

So far you can only get the T-shirt, but the founders of iToke think it’s just a matter of time.<\/p>\n

The image of a typical cannabis smoker uncannily matches that of atypical Net-user \u2013 thirtysomething members of the slacker generation looking to rebel, but in a mild way.<\/p>\n

Tim Freccia and Mike Tucker are the founders of iToke (www.itoke.co.uk<\/a>), an Amsterdam-based website that aims to make the whole process of buying pot safe and respectable.<\/p>\n

Pay a visit to the iToke site and you’ll see why some Amsterdam coffeehouse owners have accused them of attempting to Amazonify the coffee-shop scene. The stylish iToke website has been designed to look like a mix of Apple’s online store and Starbucks’ coffee site.<\/p>\n

The buying process seems simple, you get yourself a rechargeable iToken, which works much like a phone card. Then you place your order via the website or over the phone or by using a WAP phone (two grams max, I’m afraid). A bicycle courier delivers your cannabis and if it doesn’t get there within 30 minutes then, just like pizza deliveries, you get your goods for free.<\/p>\n

The only problem is that this revolutionary service was meant to launch in Amsterdam on 1 September, but currently the only thing that you are able to buy is an iToke T-shirt. Co-founder Tim Freccia explains: “We made a strategic decision not to launch for a couple of reasons. The biggest was because of the amount of publicity we’d had over the last few months, we thought we would have a media circus. The second reason was we were getting mail from a certain sector of the Amsterdam coffee-shop community that seemed to indicate that we were being misconceived.”<\/p>\n

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