Pot Vending Machines Start in LA
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The city that popularized the fast food drive-thru has a new innovation: 24-hour medical marijuana vending machines
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By Nicole C. Wong, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb.
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The city that popularized the fast food drive-thru has a new innovation: 24-hour medical marijuana vending machines.
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The seedy commercial strip with the liquor store and carryout deli was once anchored by a pharmacy. A Baptist congregation worships in the neighborhood's former Safeway. The Spic N Span market on the corner closed years ago, and the bakery that perfumed the air with the aroma of fresh bread is now a trash transfer station....
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By Bethany Clough, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Jun. 8--Doug Cox of Fresno plans to be outside the central San Joaquin Valley's first Apple Store at 7 a.m. Saturday -- three hours before the store opens.
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By Cahalan, Steve  Bear Creek Coffee and Cafe opened Wednesday at 1022 La Crosse St., in part of the building that also houses Little Caesars Pizza.  Don Brown of Homer, Minn., who owns both businesses, said Bear Creek's grand opening will be Friday.
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By John Dobberstein, Tulsa World, Okla.  Feb. 6--A Louisiana company is reopening its plant in Tulsa to meet increasing demand for industrial piping and pipe systems.
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In power-hungry Los Angeles, restauranteurs play follow the agent.
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By Peter Svensson  Would you trust a robot to park your car?  The question will confront New Yorkers next month as the city's first robotic parking garage -- and the country's first to offer hourly and day-to-day spaces -- opens in Chinatown.
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COSTA MESA, Calif. -- Few people took notice when Sony Electronics Inc. opened a tiny storefront last year here at South Coast Plaza, a swanky mall south of Los Angeles.
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Leon Nunn stepped out his front door one recent afternoon only to be waved back by a squadron of drug agents using a battering ram on a neighbor's home. The half-million-dollar home in the quiet subdivision was found to be stuffed with high-grade marijuana plants, growing in soil-free trays under bright lights.
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Marijuana vending machines in Los Angeles violate international treaties and should be shut down, the U.N.-affiliated drug control board said Friday.
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By The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 13--GULFPORT -- City officials have issued a boil water notice for residents who live in the are bounded by Amtico Drive on the west, Reynosa Drive on the east, Castille Drive on the south and Anita Street on the north after a water main broke.
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By Dave DeWitte, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa  Dec. 13--Cups, gift cards, utensils, and razor handles are just some of  the products that could soon be available in biodegradable plastic form,  compliments of a plant under construction in Clinton.
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Coffee shops licensed to sell marijuana in the southern Dutch city of Maastricht will begin fingerprinting customers and scanning their IDs this summer to help prove they're following rules governing such sales.
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The vending machine trade association is launching an anti-obesity campaign to encourage healthful food choices, hoping to fend off efforts to remove machines from schools and improve the industry's image as concerns grow about the fattening of America.