Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: Cannabis, iPhone, App, Medical | Themes: Smartphones
iPhone owners can now hunt down marijuana with style and ease.
In fact, there are two apps currently listed on Apple's Apps Store: Cannabis Apps by Ajnag ($2.99), and California Herbal Caregivers by Onaga Design ($0.99).
However, don't expect some kind of marijuana sniffer that will lead users straight to wild plants. The applications are actually offered for medical purposes, providing information and directions to medical cannabis providers and organizations in states that allow such services.
Cannabis Apps, released towards the end of June, uses directories tended by iMedicalCannabis.org and the Patient ID Center. According to the developer, for each purchase of the Cannabis app, $.50 will be donated to a cannabis non-profit reform fund that will be setup once the application reaches 1000 subscriptions. The Cannabis app helps pot seekers hunt down attorneys, clinics, doctors, and other organizations that deal with cannabis.
The California Herbal Caregivers app (C.H.C.) doesn't appear to be quite as broad as Ajnag's Cannabis, however it does boast the largest directory of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in the state of California. "This app allows you to obtain your weed in a legal, medical, and convenient fashion," reads the app's description. Apparently, the app also received an upgrade back on June 1 that implements GPS and "weed news."
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call me paranoid, but obtaining illegal drugs through legal means seems... sketchy. somehow i think im safer not being a registered dope buyer.
Careful the cops already are calling people "cowards" just cause one app tells people where the red light cameras are. Kinda funny law enforcement cries about knowledge of something that is not hidden and out in public view. Like its a big secret. Wonder what they will say about this one?
This just in! A highly restrictive version of the Google Maps has been released on the apps store.
Come on, its a map with that has a permanent search query! I'd rather have no news then crap news.
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Thanks for ANOTHER iphone app update Toms...
Advertising that you sell weed on an itunes map app, is about as stupid as hooking on Craigslist. Whatever happened to a little discretion when your doing something illegal?
Meh, replace itunes with iPhone, obviously. No edit button embarrasses me again =(
cause it isn't illegal, that's why. Well, its kind of a gray area, since its legal in the state, but federally illegal. Although the guy in charge of the DEA under Obama said they weren't going to go after medical marijuana anymore. But still... watch out for the feds.
Advertising that you sell weed on an itunes map app, is about as stupid as hooking on Craigslist. Whatever happened to a little discretion when your doing something illegal?
They must be being payed to advertise these apps, right?
Quoted wrong comment, again.
I'm surprised that apple didn't block this. They're so precious about what apps go into their store that even perfectly legal and inoffensive stuff gets blocked for the most arbitrary reasons.
I am not following you guys here...
This App gives directions to the "legal" prescription pot stores...
This is like getting an app that gives directions to the local pharmacy, big deal.
Let me ask you one thing... If you had a prescription to buy pot, would you need an APP to tell you where the closest store is? lol, I think not.
Cannabis is used for people with Arthritis.
They often (eg when being on a journey) can use replacement medicines, that can do the job. They not necessarily NEEED Cannabis unless they are addicted.
nobody needs canabis. bunch of idiot stoners and their quack medicine.
prodigit80 and wotan74 are you both so brainwashed to think cannabis isn't needed? How about the people who have cancer and can't tolerate opiates? Heroine is is converted to morphine in your liver and it is illegal but morphine isn't. Now why is that, It's illegal for the same reason cannabis is. Because of old propaganda and the stigma that surrounds it.
nobody needs canabis. bunch of idiot stoners and their quack medicine.
More people in the US die from aspirin each year than marijuana.
Now let's talk about alcohol and tobacco...