{"id":4497,"date":"2015-08-07T13:02:32","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T13:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/?p=3614"},"modified":"2015-08-07T13:02:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T13:02:32","slug":"drones-now-delivering-medical-marijuana-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/drones-now-delivering-medical-marijuana-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Drones Now Delivering Medical Marijuana In California"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/drones-now-delivering-medical-marijuana-in-california\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>A company near San Francisco has come up with a novel way to deliver bitcoin-purchased marijuana, via drone.<\/p>\n<p>Trees, which claims to sell the &#8220;highest quality&#8221; medicinal cannabis to people holding a medical recommendation, accepts payments in bitcoin alongside traditional payment methods such as cash, online bank transfer and credit cards.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the company confirmed that drone deliveries were not currently available, due to local regulations. The drone delivery option, the spokesperson said, would be rolled-out in the future if and when the regulation around the flying devices settled. Currently users will get their packages delivered by &#8220;old fashioned in-house drivers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>For now, users are required to provide their Californian driving license and medical cannabis recommendation when ordering online. To get medical approval, consumers must have a short evaluation with a doctor, either online or at a clinic.<\/p>\n<p>Users must give the medical reason for their use of cannabis, declare any pre-existing health conditions, confirm whether they&#8217;ve used cannabis before and state their preferred method of ingestion.<\/p>\n<p>Customers can then choose from six different cannabis boxes, ranging in price from $59 to $149, all of which come with a certificate of authenticity.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Trees only delivers to customers in the San Francisco Bay area.<\/p>\n<p>Although its proposed delivery method is nothing short of creative, Trees is not the first company to accept bitcoin payments for legal marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>In April last year, the first marijuana vending machine in the US, was unveiled in the sate of Colorado.<\/p>\n<p><b>State Regulation<\/b><\/p>\n<p>California was the first state to set a medical marijuana program, enacted by Proposition 215 in 1996 and Senate Bill 420 seven years later.<\/p>\n<p>The Proposition, otherwise known as the Compassionate Use Act, approved by a majority vote, enabled cancer, AIDS and patients suffering from other chronic diseases to grow or obtain marijuana following recommendation by a licensed physician.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from California and Colorado, medicinal cannabis is also legal in 21 other US states.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/gallery\/data\/1412\/15470.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>News Moderator: Jacob Redmond <a href=\"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">420 MAGAZINE \u00ae<\/a><br \/>\nFull Article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/drone-delivers-bitcoin-purchased-cannabis-in-california\/\" target=\"_blank\">You May Soon Get Bitcoin-Bought Cannabis Delivered by Drone<\/a><br \/>\nAuthor: Yessi Bello Perez<br \/>\nContact: <a href=\"mailto:news@coindesk.com\">news@coindesk.com<\/a><br \/>\nPhoto Credit: Esquire<br \/>\nWebsite: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bitcoin News, Prices, Charts, Guides &amp; Analysis &#8211; CoinDesk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A company near San Francisco has come up with a novel way to deliver bitcoin-purchased marijuana, via drone.<br \/>\nTrees, which&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/2015\/08\/drones-now-delivering-medical-marijuana-in-california\/\" class=\"read-more\">[Read More]<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1597,9,1,3],"tags":[4165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}