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.
We tend to think memory is where our account of an event becomes unreliable. But the process begins earlier. Attention is selective, perception is incomplete, and two people can experience the same event while noticing very different things.
The data is good. The model is sound. And the decision still doesn’t hold the way it should. The problem isn’t the analysis. It’s what the analysis assumes about the stability of the world it’s describing.
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.