They are not to be intended for cannabis sales (though people could use it for this use case) ..
The investment aspect is similar to investments into Steemit. You gain voting weight and vest into the project.
While we agree this can be built on top of Steem blockchain, such as the services you have mentioned, Smoke.Network is not agnostic such as those services. (And as such would not gain as much support or be able to grow at the rate needed to take network effect away from centralized services such as Leafly. )
We would need witnesses that had an alignment with our project. And are somewhat hindered by that in some ways.
We do plan to add to the Steem, (and BTS) ecosystem until we have ported over to EOS.
Thank you for the interest and support.