Read the article below and tell me what you think.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – The city that popularized the fast food
drive-through has a new invention: 24-hour medical marijuana
vending machines.
The Los Angeles Herbal Nutrition Center installed pot machines
to give medical marijuana patients a dose of convenience with their
grass. There are now three so-called P-V-M’s in the city with
security guards nearby.
Center owner Vincent Mehdisadeh says the 24-hour-a-day vending
machines offer convenience, low prices, safety and anonymity.
But federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents say the pot
vending machine may need unplugging. DEA Special Agent Jose
Martinez says – quoting now – “Once we find out where it’s at,
we’ll look into it and see if they’re violating laws.”
The computerized pot vending machine requires fingerprint
identification and a prepaid card with a magnetic stripe. Once the
card and fingerprint are verified, a bright green envelope with the
pot drops down a slot.
Mehdizadeh says any user approved for medical marijuana and
registered in a computer database at his dispensaries can
pre-purchase the drug and then use the machine to pick up.
In the news business we come across some “interesting” items, but this almost seems to be a joke. ATM Machines get STOLEN, but officials think a security guard will be able to stop a gang of thieves who can EASILY benefit by breaking into one of the machines or stealing it. Wow, what will they think of next?
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The gang of thieves aspect of this is one side of the funny…the other is that the “user” is willing to be fingerprinted in order to get his pot.
How convenient for DEA!
“Officials”? You must mean company officials. I read this story elsewhere and got the impression it was the vendor who was deploying the security guards.
In any case, it appears the person or persons responsible have been testing their own product a bit too much.