Prescription vending machine in Los Angeles?

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http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/01/26/sahib.ca.marijuana.vending.kcal

Seriously?

Even ignoring the marijuana aspect of it, how is it legal for a vending machine to dispense prescriptions? Is it only because marijuana can't really be prescribed legally anyway, so it's not as though the patient could get it from a pharmacy?

The owner also states, "It will dispense medications from antidepressants, to pain medications, to Viagra..."

How is it legal for these medications to be bought from a machine? Maybe I'm missing something here. Just wondering what a pharmacist's or pharmacy student's take on this is.

 

[acetyl]

It won't be long before the DEA comes along and raids that place and takes the machine off the sidewalk.

It's so weird how it can be a legal state law, but illegal national law...allowing the feds to raid if they see fit.

 

[confettiflyer]

It won't be long before the DEA comes along and raids that place and takes the machine off the sidewalk.

It's so weird how it can be a legal state law, but illegal national law...allowing the feds to raid if they see fit.

Well basically legal state law/illegal federal law means California will try to spend $0 in the apprehension/investigation of pot smokers/etc... SFPD officially got a memo telling them to put pot arrests at the absolute lowest enforcement priority.

 

[genesis09]

In Illinois, those machines are legal for refills.

 

[TV09]

wow that is interesting. Isn't Tokyo the city where almost everything there can be bought out of a vending machine?

 

[Hpower12]

some times cali just seems like another planet or some far away strange land.