Drugs keep getting more accesible, it seems. Las Angeles local Vincent Mehdizadeh has unveiled his latest creation, a large refrigerator-sized box that dispenses medical marijuana to anyone carrying an approved user's card. According to the Associated Press, anyone licesened in the state of California can prepay for their pot online, than take their card to any one of three vending machines and recieve their drugs.
Says Mehdizadeh, "convenient access, lower prices, safety, (and) anonymity" are just a few of the machines' benefits.
The machines are armored, and potential customers must belong to a registered database and provide fingerprint identification at the time of pickup.
Personally, I'm not too firm a believer in the benefits of medical marijuana. It all seems to me like people use their "conditions" as an excuse to get high without having to worry about jailtime. Interestingly enough, California state laws that allow the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes are directly at odds with federal laws that prohibit its use period.
Many proponents for the legalization of marijuana believe that its a harmless drug, but this is simply not true. Marijuana smokers, on average, inhale about three to five times more tar than tobacco smokers, putting them at serious risk for lung cancer, among other respritory diseases. Not to mention the added detrement of THC, the chemical in pot that allows for the feeling of euphoria, or "high". Sure, it may feel good, but prolonged usage can destroy the brain cells used to store memory.
When last I checked, "medicine" isn't supposed to make you worse.
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