WeedWorks is a private cannabis friendly community empowered by its registered members to acquire, design and operate spaces around the world.
Weedworks is a community of artists, thinkers, engineers, doctors, innovators, and technologists that have come together to recognise our self-sovereignity by exercising our individual rights while honouring our personal responsibilities.
WeedWorks spaces are designed around our [philosophy]() and [life-style](). We aim to build and sustain [open-sourced technological and social infrastructure]() for bonding cannabis-friendly communities into crypto-friendly ecosystems.
WeedWorks funds proposals that are aligned with the community though the [WeedWorksDAO]().
WeedWorks respects all local laws while actively promoting our values and way of life.

WeedWorks philosophy is best expressed by se

”We cannot expect governments, corporations or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their benificence. It is to their advantage to speak of us, and we should expect that they will speak. To try to prevent their speech is to fight against the realities of information. Information does not just want to be free, it longs to be free. Information expands to fill the available storage space. Information is Rumor’s younger, stronger cousin; Information is fleeter of foot, has more eyes, knows more, and understands less than Rumor. We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place. People have been defending their own privacy for centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret handshakes and couriers. The technologies of the past did not allow for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do. We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail-forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money … We don’t much care if you approve of the software we write. We know that software can’t be destroyed and that a widely dispersed system can’t be shut down.”
Eric Hughes

Self Sovereingty

“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.” – John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

In Canada and in parts of the United States, cannabis has been legalized for medical and recreational use. In Germany and Italy, medical cannabis is highly regulated but it is expanding yearly at a near exponential rate. The Netherlands a country that, pioneered the cannabis coffee club model has not advanced as Portugal. Spain is starting to provide a jurisdictional framework for cannabis consumption, however administrative penalties for possession are more than half the minimum wage.
Countries with full legalisation such as Uruguay require that users register in a Government database present a huge privacy risk. Decriminalization, regulation and or legalisation at the cost of privacy is not acceptable.
History has shown us that privacy goes hand in hand with personal security. To provide governments and or third parties with personal data that reveals where we buy, how much we buy and how often is clearly not an option.
Decentralized Identification Issuing and validation is the first step. Privacy, data sovereignty, individual and community reputation will come next so we can enable social engagement through governing a Commons Open Source Platform.

We want to go further and build up a self-regulated ecosystem on a decentralized cryptographically secured platform.

The challenges that are ahead of us can be solved with cutting edge cryptography, and professional customisation and deployment.