I'm not really sure why people are upset about a halving...increasing scarcity is important for the value of a coin. If it never becomes harder to obtain, it'll never really gain significant value. I'm assuming there's a healthy split here between people who are speculating and want the value to go up, and people who want the coin to achieve widespread use in the medicinal marijuana community. Both should want the value to increase. Overabundance of supply and lack of demand will cause the value to slide downward.

When less new coin is mined and dumped on the markets, there will be less available to trade and the value of what IS being traded will rise, IF demand increases beyond the new supply. That demand is largely up to users to create. I see a lot of folks in this thread talking about how the developer needs to do this or that. No...it's up to you to request it and promote it. Ask your dispensaries if they'd consider taking it as payment. Educate them about it. Don't leave it all up to the devs...they have enough on their plate.