Pubdate: Thu, 03 Jan 2013
Source: Boston Herald (MA)
Copyright: 2013 The Boston Herald, Inc
Contact:  http://news.bostonherald.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/53
Note: Prints only very short LTEs.

DUMB IDEA NO. 1 . . .

The voter-approved "medical" marijuana law now in effect is surely
going to be the gift that keeps on giving.

A number of communities have already rushed to ban dispensaries from
setting up shop and a lot of folks are skeptical that the state
Department of Public Health, which failed abysmally to regulate
compounding pharmacies (a failure that claimed the lives of 39 people
so far) and its own drug testing lab (putting several hundred
criminals back on the street) might not be able to handle the
regulation of pot shops. Gee, ya think? One thing we already know is
that a lot of people will be making a lot of money peddling pot -
among them Dr. Bruce Bedrick, CEO of MedBox Inc. which provides
"consulting services and dispensing systems" for the weed, according
to The Associated Press, and recently opened a Natick office. The
MedBox "system" looks rather like a vending machine, but one only
accessible to dispensary employees, he assures, so it won't be next to
the Cheez-Its and Snickers machine - at least for now.

The new law provides for 35 pot shops throughout the state, but
Bedrick insists, "I would expect hundreds of people to apply for the
(dispensary) licenses ultimately."

Oh, happy day! 
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MAP posted-by: Jo-D