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Behold the Autospense – the world’s first marijuana vending machine – made by Dispense Labs and currently installed at the Dispensary Store, Santa Ana, CA.
You insert your medical marijuana card, scan your thumbprint, insert payment and collect your medicinal ganja.
Or, you know, score some from two guys in a purple Buick around the corner.
Aliso Viejo Company Creates Pot Vending Machine (Orange County Register)
Previously: Reefer Sanity
More than 300 economists, including three nobel laureates, have signed a petition calling attention to the findings of a paper by Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron, which suggests that if the government legalized marijuana it would save $7.7 billion annually by not having to enforce the current prohibition on the drug. The report added that legalization would save an additional $6 billion per year if the government taxed marijuana at rates similar to alcohol and tobacco.
Pot Legalization Could Save U.S. $13.7 Billion Per Year, 300 Economists Say (Huffington Post)
Why Ireland might be more of a cannabis destination than The Netherlands huff.to/zMKpXU
— Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) February 16, 2012
1.4 Million Euros Worth Of Cannabis Seized In Dundalk, Ireland (Huffington Post)
With weed in the news again, following the current hoo-hah about homegrown Irish skunk and the publication of a 20 year research project suggesting that occasional marijuana use may well improve lung function, Steve Elliot of Toke Of The Town reports on the strident anti-pothead musings of Dr Ruari Hanley (above) last week in the Irish Medical Times:
Regular readers of this column will be unsurprised to learn that I have never had any time for marijuana. Like anyone who attended an Irish university in the last 40 years, I was aware during my college years of the existence of a few long-term cannabis users. I freely admit I regarded these people as a bunch of brain-dead, attention-seeking idiots suffering from a chronic aversion to personal hygiene.
In fact, I cannot recall ever meeting a clean-shaven pothead. This is an approach to grooming they appear to share with trade union officials and borderline communist politicians.
To be fair, and with a few pathetic exceptions, I would say that medical students were among the least likely to regularly partake of illegal drugs while in third-level education.
For this reason, they were largely mocked by other, more ‘hip’ undergraduates as a bunch of boring nerds who were unwelcome in the various fashionable ‘societies’ where Celtic Tiger cubs went to play. No doubt the cool gang are still laughing from the higher moral ground of the dole queue today.
Irish Doctor Claims Smoking Marijuana Leads To Beards (The Weed Blog)
Leave the girl alone, Babylon. She have diplomatic immunity.
Bob Marley’s daughter Makeda pleads guilty to growing marijuana in her home (Mail Online)
