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Africa Vending machines VIDEO AND AUDIO NEWS distributing the drug How the marijuana-dispensing Americas vending machine works Asia-Pacific marijuana are to begin Europe operating in the US state Middle East of California. SEE ALSO South Asia The machines can only be Schwarzenegger speaks on drug UK use used by people who have Business 29 Oct 07 | UK been prescribed the drug for US upholds medical marijuana ban Health health reasons. Eleven US states allow medical 15 Mar 07 | Americas Science/Nature marijuana on doctors' orders US can bar medical cannabis use Technology Patients will have to provide a prescription, and be 06 Jun 05 | Americas Entertainment fingerprinted and photographed before being allowed to Doctors 'recommend cannabis use' Also in the news use the facilities. 19 Mar 05 | Health ------Cannabis rethink 'not a reversal' 19 Mar 05 | UK Video and Audio Eleven US states allow the medicinal use of marijuana, Cannabis mental health risk probe ------primarily for pain relief, but it remains controversial. Have Your Say 29 Jan 05 | Health In Pictures Vince Mehdizadeh, owner of the Herbal Nutrition Centre RELATED INTERNET LINKS Country Profiles in Los Angeles, where one of the two first machines is Medical Marijuana ProCon.org Special Reports based, said it would allow patients to buy extra supplies Marijuana Law Reform US Drug Enforcement RELATED BBC SITES whenever needed. Administration SPORT The BBC is not responsible for the Series of checks content of external internet sites WEATHER ON THIS DAY Once the users have been photographed, fingerprinted TOP AMERICAS STORIES EDITORS' BLOG and have shown their prescription, they will be issued Venezuela restores Colombia ties with a card which can be used in the machines, he told Snow storms batter Canada and LANGUAGES KWTX News 10 in the US. US Bolivia to defend coca leaf at UN "They'll be greeted by a security guard right there. | News feeds They'll slide the card in and they'll fingerprint in to verify MOST POPULAR STORIES NOW that it's them," he was quoted by KWTX News 10 as saying. MOST E-MAILED MOST READ Camera 'looks' through clothing "A camera takes a picture of them, verifying that they're Day in pictures actually at the machine. And they get the medicine and Rain and high winds battering UK they move on." Can Hillary Clinton still win? The operators think that vending machines issuing Your pictures of the UK storms prescription drugs could become a common sight in the Most popular now, in detail US.
Proponents say marijauna is a valuable tool for relieving pain and stimulating appetite in the sick.
However, it remains banned by the 1970 Controlled Substances Act and the US federal government does not currently recognise any legitimate medical use.
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