A Marijuana Vending Machine – no I’m not joking, though of course you couldn’t put one of these in Australia. In LA however its a different matter.
Herbal Nutrition Center has installed these Marijuana Vending Machines in two dispensaries which are open 24/7. You first need a prescription from your doctor, the machine then fingerprints you and you have to do a heap of other id checks – but then out pops your marijuana.
The frustration with institutions isn’t wrong. But the explanation usually is. The problem isn’t political will or institutional timidity. It’s a design built for a world that no longer exists.
Efficiency built the care systems we have. It is not sufficient to sustain them through what’s coming. The pressures arriving into health and aged care are structural, not cyclical, and the response needs to match.
The model is sound. The assumptions have been stress-tested. And the project is still harder to deliver than the numbers suggested. The problem isn’t the modelling. It’s what the model assumes about the world.