New iPhone app helps you score pot
States that are low on funds are steadily inhaling the idea of taxing the sale of a substance that gets you high.
Meanwhile, as if anticipating an uptick in demand, the folks at Apple have approved a new iPhone and iPod Touch app that will allow a little more mobile access to the soothing properties of marijuana.
Called "Cannabis" it is, according to Salem-News.com, an app that allows you to hold between your fingertips everything you need to facilitate your marijuana experience.
Your legal marijuana experience, that is.
Some states--California being in the surprising vanguard--have made the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes legal.
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The Cannabis app's first step, therefore, is helping you find a doctor who can approve your deep medicinal need.
If your medical condition is deemed to be sufficiently pressing, the app then directs you to the nearest medical-marijuana facilities. Yes, it offers precise directions, just in case you aren't feeling at your most alert.
It even offers you the finest and most responsible locations of marijuana coffee shops in, say, Amsterdam, should you happen to have wandered to those parts.
However, it doesn't stop there.
Should you find yourself in some untoward legal kerfuffle in relation to your marijuana use, a quick sideways glance at the Cannabis app will find you the location of the nearest and finest lawyer who specializes in marijuana-related cases.
The app is the creation of AJNAG.com, which describes itself as a "cannabis lifestyle network."
According to Cannabisapps.com, AJNAG.com "will donate 50 cents for every 'Cannabis' purchase to a cannabis nonprofit reform fund, which will be set up once the application reaches 1,000 subscriptions."
There is something to be enjoyed in the language the organization uses: "Our goal is to put the power of cannabis change in your pocket while you enjoy the most sticky and potent iPhone application available!"
Sticky and potent. Yes, exactly the words to describe the finest iPhone apps.
Chris Matyszczyk is an award-winning creative director who advises major corporations on content creation and marketing. He brings an irreverent, sarcastic, and sometimes ironic voice to the tech world. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. 
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How's that barcode feel on your forehead?
Buying and selling pot. illegal (federally and in most of the country) AND irresponsible
nice approval process, Apple.
Selling Pot may not be completely legal but it is NOT irresponsible you sad sad person.
And how the hell is buying or selling pot irresponsible? You really are a sponge for government propaganda huh? Good thing the Obama administration have announced an end to the DEA raids on legal state pot-shops.
you idiots.
Also, possession and sale of MARIJUANA IS STILL A FEDERAL CRIME. state law DOES NOT supercede federal law.
you people are so freakin dumb.
by terminalblue July 19, 2009 6:00 PM PDT
shaking a baby is not illegal. TRAUMA caused by baby shaking is not legal.
you idiots.
Also, possession and sale of MARIJUANA IS STILL A FEDERAL CRIME. state law DOES NOT supercede federal law.
you people are so freakin dumb."
Dude, you just don't get it do you?? Shaking a baby regardless of trauma IS a crime. If you don't believe me, I dare you to shake a baby in front of the police. Just remember, you were warned.
Arguing that shaking a baby isn't a crime unless you traumatize that baby is like arguing that you didn't commit suicide until you hit the pavement.
Then you turn around and accuse others of being dumb.
Also, smoking pot is, in and of itself, not irresponsible. That's like arguing that drinking a beer is irresponsible. The act itself isn't irresponsible: It harms no one and causes no one ill effects (except for the user).
As for state law superceding federal law, that's not correct. In the particular case of Federal drug laws regarding medicinal marijuana, the Supreme Court ruled that Federal laws supercede State laws.
That is not to say (as you have) that ALL state laws are superceded by Federal laws. These matters have to be decided by the courts on a case by case basis, and usually end up at the Supreme Court, where a decision is made. Your constitution divides powers between Federal and State governments, and it's the Supreme Court's job to apply the spirit of that document to todays issues.
Of course, the real motive behind the particular Supreme Court case that the Bush administration brought against the State of California was this: Marijuana isn't sold by Pfizer or GlaxoSmithKline or Johnson & Johnson.
You can't embrace 20 TV ads a night promising your grandpa an erection and then turn around and get angry at people who want to smoke a plant that grows naturally, and that has been smoked for thousands of years.
*ugh* End rant.
Fact is, if they legalized pot, and taxed it the way they do booze and cigarettes, the government would have a new source of revenue without raising the taxes on anyone but the willing buyers, they would reduce crime and the amount of money needed to run jails, and help save our national parks where criminals now flock to raise pot on federal lands.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
The OP is referring to the baby shaking app that was removed from the app store earlier in the year (or last year). I guess noone gets irony on here as the OP was just stating that they'll approve an app that facilitates access to potentially illegal narcotics (don't give me that medicinal use guff) but remove a cartoon baby that you can shake on your phone.
get a grip.
I'm guessing you didn't bother to read the article before spouting off here.
Keeping marijuana illegal does not benefit our children. It benefits special interest groups: liquor companies, the prison industry, police departments, government bureaucracies, and drug cartels.
It is immoral to prevent responsible adults from choosing a healthier substitute for alcohol. If pot were legalized, alcohol use would decrease along with its social costs.
If you're tired of wasting money on eradicating California's largest cash crop, tell your legislators to support California Assembly Bill 390. It's easy. Visit <a href="http://yes390.org"> <b> yes390.org </b> </a>
There's already a lot of stupid lazy people in this country, the last thing we need is to give them the legal ability to become even more lazy and useless.
I've seen my friends high and they are about the most non-productive humans on the planet when they toke it up. It's just sad that some people are so miserable that they need some sort of escape, whether it be alcohol, pot or whatever. Sure pot is way down low on the harmful drugs ladder, but why stop at legalizing pot? What if I want to trip on acid every weekend? Maybe eat some ectasy and dance my ass off? Shouldn't that be my right if my other friends are sitting at home watching Adult Swim and smoking weed?
Shrooms, Peyote, Opium, and cocaine also fit safely into your argument and YES I know that mushrooms aren't technically a plant ;)
I will give you this, it is more of a waste and time and money trying to go after those who smoke pot when there are much worse things going on around the country.
ok first of all you know that you can disagree with the use of pot and think it's wrong but still agree that it would be better for the country if it were legalized, right? because you know that people are going to use it anyways
and if your reasoning is that it will make the whole country lazy and useless consider that it's less addictive than alcohol so i doubt we would have more potheads than alcoholics and they would mostly be people that would be alcoholics anyways
secondly part of the argument for legalizing marijuana is that it provides a legal and safer alternative to more harmful drugs like acid and ecstasy so they wouldn't be as popular, and you can overdose on everything but pot so the more harmful drugs have a much stronger argument for keeping them illegal
and don't think about the "gateway drug" argument, the only reason marijuana is a gateway drug is because it's illegal and you have to get it through drug dealers, by legalizing it you're effectively desconnecting it from the more harmful drugs
and no meth isnt perscribed for ADD but Ritalin and perscription drugs are a problem (though ritalin actually increases productivity)
The government can't tax it; the stuff grows *ANYWHERE*. thats why its called weed. cigarettes and alcohol are relatively easy to tax because they are a manufactured product, so the government just taxes the companies responsible, whereas any john doe can grow pot and roll a blunt. it takes factories and resources to produce alcohol and tobacco. think about it: thats why moonshine is illegal.
they do prescribe meth for ADHD. "The majority of patients take methylphenidate (Ritalin, Concerta), whereas most of the rest are prescribed an amphetamine such as Adderall." -scientific american (this issue) Thats why Ritalin is taken as a diet drug and appetite suppressant and why when snorted has effects very similar to cocaine.
check out the article, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=do-adhd-drugs-take-a-toll , before you start implying people don't know what they are talking about. You'll find that doping up our kids while their brains are still developing is having a plethora of side effects similar to do to those experienced by drug addicts. Anyway, I don't smoke pot ( I have tried it, its not for me.) but I think that the majority of Americans understand that it is very safe. Pot smokers veg out on the couch and don't harm anyone, drunks get into their vehicles and drive home from the bars... often killing themselves, someone else, or doing tons of property damage.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071217110328.htm
Twice in the last few days :)
What Leo needs is a Chuck E. Cheese finding app for his Pre
by baconstang July 19, 2009 5:48 PM PDT
Or a "Pull-Ups" finder.
I agree on both fronts!! Idiots with nothing better to do and with such creative usernames!
Cough, cough. Now if I could just remember where I left my Touch.
Let`s tax the HELL out of the Democrat`s pot farms !
I mean it's not like a bunch of greedy execs at banks, insurance agencies and car manufacturers who made tons of bad finical decisions, and giving out insane bonuses had anything to do with the current economic state... nope, it all goes back to Ronald Regan! Thanks Perry, I really had no idea. I could have swore it was all that greed and corruption over on Wall Street!
He didn't blame Reagan, he blamed "Reaganista"'s.
The groups you cited (The greedy and corrupt on Wall St, greedy bank execs etc) are most certainly Reaganista's.
Or were you under the impression that all those lobbyists from Wall st. that convinced George Bush to plan to put your Social Security benefits on the market were actually secretly cardigan-wearing Jimmy Carter fans?
Good thing that the Democrats shot that one down, or your country would REALLY be in a mess.
OTOH, selling an app that locates addresses for obtaining a state-sanctioned license is not illegal either, which makes him factually wrong. Methinks that poster was rather inarticulate (and his defense miserable), no?
I'm an n of one, but at least I know what it looks like from the other side of the misery index.
- by biffhenerson July 20, 2009 8:18 AM PDT
- Like some burnout pot head druggy can run an iPhone. Lol! Medical Pot. Yeah right. There are a few legit customers but its mostly scammer pot heads that get the stuff by using pot head doctors. Protect our kids. Send all the druggies to Prison. That is ONE tax I dont mind paying.
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