subject: The Medical Marijuana Vending Machine [print this page] The Medical Marijuana Vending Machine The Medical Marijuana Vending Machine
If you suffer from chronic pain, loss of appetite or glaucoma and would like to alleviate your symptom withmedical marijuana, you no longer have to wait for a local distribution center to open.Vending machinescan now dispense medicinal marijuana 24-hours to registered card holders.
Vincent Mehdizadeh, inventor and owner of the vending machine, calls his black armored box used to dispense medical marijuana a PVM, or perscription vending machine. No different looking than a snack vending machine, just more complicated, he spent seven months to develop and patent it.
The PVM verifies that the user is legally allowed to purchase medicinal marijuana by requiring a prescription card and a fingerprint that is associated with the holder of the card. This ensures that no one else can purchaseit illegally from the machine.
The prescription card is issued from a medical marijuana dispensary during pre-payment. The PVM recognizes the user from the card and does not take any money. Anyone who is eligible to purchase medical marijuana can prepay and pick it uphours later, according to Mehdizadeh.
The PVM has many advantages over traditional methods of obtaining medical marijuana.
The machine does not allow any one user to take more than one ounce of medicinal marijuana a week. Each transaction gives the customer about one-eighth to two-eighths of an ounce. This is controlled by machine software. So state regulation is built into the machine.
The medical marijuana dispensary provides a worry-free solution for someone who needs to cure symptoms that onlytheapproved strainscan treat and feels nervous about picking up medicalmarijuana in the middle of the night, in person.
Another benefit of the machine, according to Mehdizadeh, is lower cost. By eliminating the workers behind the counter at the distribution centers, buyers will pay $20 to $40 less per one-eighth of an ounce.
Many people are interested in running this form of business because it is the only booming business in many states right now. Now that medical marijuana has become legal in Arizona, those who are interested in getting in at the right time only have 35 more times to do so. The company provides complete training so an investor or entrepreneur who would like to operate a marijuana vending machine can step in and start making money immediately.
