Posted on 04/14/2014 8:54:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
An automated pot-selling machine was unveiled at an event held at an Avon, Colo., restaurant Saturday, promising a potential new era of selling marijuana and pot-infused snacks from vending machines directly to customers.
Its creators say the machine, called the ZaZZZ, uses biometrics to verify a customer's age. The machine is climate-controlled to keep its product fresh.
You may be picturing a vending machine on a sidewalk, ready to dispense pot brownies to anyone with correct change. That's not quite what backers of the machine have in mind. For now, at least, the ZaZZZ is aimed for use only by medical marijuana patients. And it'll be in licensed stores, where it will serve a purpose like that of an automated checkout line at a grocery, they say.
The machine is built by American Green; its first model is geared toward selling snacks and other items at dispensary Herbal Elements in Eagle-Vail, Colo. — after the company is sure it has met all regulations.
Stephen Shearin of American Green parent company Tranzbyte tells Denver blogger The Cannabist that the vending machine "uses the same technology that checks age/ID fraud under the Control Meth Act. Your identity is confirmed against active biometrics. The machine on display this weekend will not be taking medical cards, but we are prepared to integrate."
Shearin also acknowledges that the idea of buying marijuana from a machine will likely have a "wow factor" that could help boost business.
The pot machine could also help dispensary owners cut down on employee theft.
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Now this is progress.
I hope those machines have a great security system.
Will they also have bags of Doritos?
Why the hell is the left all ecstatic over getting pot into the mouths of as many people as possible, and harassing cigarette smokers?
Maybe because stoneheads always vote democrat (when they are lucid enough to be able to read the ballot)
Colorado used to be one of my favorite states to travel to. Not anymore.
> Why the hell is the left all ecstatic over getting pot into the mouths of as many people as possible, and harassing cigarette smokers?
Maybe because stoneheads always vote democrat (when they are lucid enough to be able to read the ballot)
Excellent point.
Does this mean we can finally have cigarette machines again?
> Its creators say the machine, called the ZaZZZ, uses biometrics to verify a customer’s age.
I’m going to guess the size of the palm. You might wantbto invest in rubber hands. I have a feeling the demand is about to explode among the indoctrinated youth in Colorado.
Sex, drugs, rock and roll. This mantra of the left has now almost completely taken over our culture and society. Sex in the way of porn and gay sex. Drugs in the way of legalized pot and legal drugs like ritalin et al...rock and roll in the form of the music and entertainment industry completely dominating the minds and hearts of America.
Im of the opinion that it needs to be regulated for medical use, akin to alcohol.
Unfortunately, what I fear happening is the legitimate medical use has been co-opted by burnouts looking for a legal high, thus delegitimizing the medical uses.
That said, the illegality of that fuels a huge law enforcement and prison industry (read govt job security) that is unlikely and reluctant to retool
incidentally, I never smoked the stuff - neither did my roomie in college
“Maybe because stoneheads always vote democrat (when they are lucid enough to be able to read the ballot)”. Not quite true. Out of all of my friends, if you group together the highest paid (from 150-300 kilobucks per year), they all have smoked every day since college, and they are all armed to the teeth hard core conservatives.
Under Obamacare, is it required to have signs disclosing the calorie count of all the munchies the user will consume?
disgusting
Well there are exceptions to every rule. I don’t think that would be the case across the vast spectrum though.
"Like, wow, man!"
Perhaps we know each other, friend....lol
So..in the USA you can not have an alcohol vending machine but you can have a Pot vending machines. .funny how that is
Because pot does seem to do two things:
1. Dumb you down.
2. Make you passive.
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