California Opens First Weed Vending Machine: Rad or Bad?

by SodaHead News Posted 2012/04/24 22:00:00

Related Topics: Weed, Marijuana, 420, weed vending machine, California

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Japanese vending machines sell everything from beer to veggies, so why shouldn't California set up vending machines for its biggest cash crop? Well, it's illegal for starters, but that's not stopping The Dispensary Group from launching the state's first automated marijuana dispenser so patients can get their relief when the shops are closed. Of course, you need a medical marijuana card to use it, and there are a few more "by the ways" for potential customers.

According to Dvice, the machine (called the AutoSpense) requires a special swipe card, a thumbprint, and a pin code to function. Oh, and it's under constant surveillance. We assume an electrified metal cage comes down around you and alerts a SWAT team if you get the pin code wrong, but then again, we're just guessing. So, tell us: Does California's first weed vending machine sound like a good idea?

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Incognito 2012/04/25 16:30:50

Rad

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Our government claims that Marijuana is illegal because it is a health hazard. Meanwhile, cigarettes and alcohol, which are far worse for your health are legal. Not to mention pharmaceuticals, some food additives, and other things in our enviornment, remain to be huge obstacles to good health. So where is the logic?

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Maverick Capitalist 2012/04/26 20:50:29

Rad

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Though I would never choose to use the term rad, the fact is that pot should be legalized. The amount of time and money wasted on enforcement over the past 40 years has obviously not worked. Though it does provide cops an option to skim money for their retirement savings -- the "war on drugs" has worked as well as the war on poverty...unless the Obama definition of success is used where increased drug use and poverty are defined as success.

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TrudyGirl to Maveric... 2012/04/27 14:05:10

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This is not a party issue it is a country/people issue. Please try to take party lines out of this fight it will only bog down the fight.

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intolerantrwj 2012/04/26 20:30:21

Bad

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..... imagine that .... California not conforming .... can anyone say ' Illegal Alien Laws '

............... why am I not surprised

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BwaHa to intoler... 2012/05/02 15:24:57 (edited)

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RE: conforming... So, we should all simply "conform"??? I have a problem with that sometimes... well, quite often these days. My brain isn't all that dumbed down by politics and government's perceived "rule" to simply "conform" because I'm told or otherwise expected to... yet.

And at my age I doubt I'll ever be dumbed down to that level.

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intoler... to BwaHa 2012/05/02 15:44:03

..... if it were up to me, I'd give California back to Meyheyco to settle that squabble and in doing so I'd be lessening U S Air Polution, Illegal Aliens, reduce crime and disown a major percentage of the population that thinks they can generate idiot Laws that we should conform to but trample Laws that they choose to ignore.

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TheatreAddict 2012/04/26 20:11:02

Rad

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.................:D

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Margaret Jacobson 2012/04/26 19:48:20

Rad

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sounds good............perhaps for some other drugs,.........might work ??

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Julian to Margare... 2012/04/27 01:48:33

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If they put out a cocaine machine it would go missing the first day.

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BwaHa to Julian 2012/05/02 15:27:37

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That's funny! I don't do coke personally but that's funny!

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Julian to BwaHa 2012/05/02 19:43:25

Thanks!

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Michaelene 2012/04/26 18:09:14

Bad

The alcohol vending machines are not working out so well in PA, I can't imagine that these will work either.

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BwaHa to Michaelene 2012/05/02 15:29:02

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The beer machines worked great in the barracks in the early 70's. An ice cold Pabst for 35 cents... worked fine!

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Michaelene to BwaHa 2012/05/10 14:56:41

I'm sure it did considering the area was exclusively an adult area constantly monitored by the military. The minimum purchase age limits were different then too.
"From 1969 to 1976, some 30 states lowered their purchase ages, generally to 18. This was primarily because the voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 with the 26th amendment, and nearly all states lowered their ages of majority as well."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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betsy 2012/04/26 17:02:42

Rad

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Great idea!!

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Kimberley 2012/04/26 16:11:48

Rad

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Sure! Why not! California is already the most progressive state in their approach to medical marijuana patients and also working very well monitoring and working with the farmers who grow weed in large quantities. So why not???

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pinklady 2012/04/26 15:38:23

Rad

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Personally I'm not into it. I just feel the only reason the government hasn't legalized it is they haven't figured out how to limit marijuana's crops, importing, sales of, etc., in order to tax it, as in cigarettes and liquor.

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exhon2009 2012/04/26 15:21:43

Bad

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They don't dispense alcohol from vending machines for a reason. Whoever invested in this will lose all their money.

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Kimberley to exhon2009 2012/04/26 16:10:22
exhon2009 to Kimberley 2012/04/26 17:25:57

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It is a huge business and people are making huge sums of money in it, but I believe the amount of revenue from Marijuana vending machines is currently zero, (in the United States anyway). Where will the first machine be installed? You didn't invest any of your money in the machines did you? Stick to conventional distribution and you too can make money in that business.

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Michaelene to exhon2009 2012/04/26 18:14:51

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Especially at the prices listed in the pic, lmao

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Michaelene to exhon2009 2012/04/26 18:13:45

They are trying it in PA, it's not working out too well.

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exhon2009 to Michaelene 2012/04/26 18:20:58

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Seriously? There are marijuana vending machines installed in PA? Is it not working out because people aren't using them or the state police are seizing them?

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Michaelene to exhon2009 2012/04/26 18:40:01

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NO, LOL the alcohol machines, it requires a breathlyzer and a swipe of a current driver's license. The machines often break and have to be monitored by humans after all.

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exhon2009 to Michaelene 2012/04/26 19:41:46

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Does the government control liquor distribution in PA? If so, that explains it.

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Michaelene to exhon2009 2012/04/27 07:45:23

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Why yes it does, lol! You know they can even screw up the sale of a bottle of wine.

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heirsoftheking 2012/04/26 14:28:40 (edited)

Bad

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Here's the WFTV Channel 9 weblink about a guy who smoked marijuana with his buddies, then he went on a shooting spree and killed 3 of them on the spot:

http://www.wftv.com/ap/ap/cri...

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Murph to heirsof... 2012/04/26 14:55:02

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I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess this guy had issues long before he started smoking pot.

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Lady Yui to heirsof... 2012/04/26 15:30:06

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And...what? You're going to just assume that it was because of the weed? Let's just, for the moment, assume that it was the weed that made him do it (even though there has never been a single case of being high on weed being the cause of violence before)...you know what causes violence exponentially more often than weed? Alcohol. You gonna say that should be illegal (again), too?

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Murph to Lady Yui 2012/04/26 15:58:28

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And what is a 32 year old man doing with three 19 year old kids in his apartment smoking dope?

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Michaelene to Murph 2012/04/26 18:11:05

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I wondered the same thing?

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Lady Yui to Murph 2012/04/26 19:16:20

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What business is it of yours what 4 ADULTS decide to do for fun? Being high on weed doesn't make a person paranoid, so his paranoia problem and the actions he took because of it weren't because he was high. He was probably paranoid that the other guys were going to rob him and kill him for his weed...which he wouldn't have been if the damn stuff was just legal. This is just another example of prohibition causing crime.

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chgo to heirsof... 2012/04/27 13:25:36

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Simpletons tend to resort to hasty generalizations in order to suit their bias agenda.

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TrudyGirl to chgo 2012/04/27 14:11:11

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Great comment and it could be used extensively in this election year!

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TrudyGirl to heirsof... 2012/04/27 14:09:57

Cannabis does not cause violence. If anything it gets the opposite results. This person had other problems. Lock up bad people not something that helps people who are seriously ill.

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Kimberley to heirsof... 2012/07/05 17:24:59

Thanks "ridiculous person". Anybody can get out of control on just about anything. Look at the sensationalist story of "bath salts", which supposed now is NOT "bath salts". BTW, doesn't anybody KNOW what EXACTLY went on there? Psychopathic binge on eating someone else......or??

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NKULE 2012/04/26 13:50:29

Bad

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wtf

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dusty 2012/04/26 11:26:32

Rad

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i dont do it and i dont care

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Watermusicranger 2012/04/26 09:18:01 (edited)

Bad

Don't Care either way

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AskZilla 2012/04/26 08:54:58

Bad

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Some people like me are allergic to it. It causes headaches and violent sinus reactions. But people who like to imbibe in these substances don't give a flying fornication about those of us who are allergic. They're just rude.

And you know how easy it is to get a marijuana card in California? Very. Because it costs money to get one. The problem I have with medical marijuana is there is no monitoring of the dosages being taken. That is NOT medicine. It's recreational.

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Lady Yui to AskZilla 2012/04/26 15:26:14

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"That is NOT medicine. It's recreational."

And it's still none of your business what someone else does for fun.

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