Sidecar is starting a weed delivery service in San Francisco
Your next Sidecar ride could be carrying more than passengers and parcels. The ride-sharing company announced that it is teaming with local cannabis service Meadow to bring same-day weed deliveries to medical marijuana patients in San Francisco. The new service will reportedly fulfill orders through the Apothecarium dispensary. Package deliveries already constitute about 10 percent of Sidecar's ride volume in San Francisco. However, carrying cannabis poses a number of unique challenges -- such as ensuring that the person taking delivery is the same person that placed the order.
"There are a lot of reasons we wanted to partner with Sidecar," Meadow CEO David Hua told BuzzFeed. "Mainly, they're willing to work within necessary compliance regulations, both San Francisco law and California state laws. [And] they have a delivery network out there that's already processing orders both on [the] delivery side and passenger side." Sidecar isn't saying how many of its drivers will be handling cannabis deliveries, only that "there's enough to satisfy the expected demand" according to Hua. The company is also looking to expand this service to other cities in the future. But given how reticent many municipalities are towards cannabis deliveries -- Los Angeles and San Jose for example, have both banned the practice -- that could prove difficult. It will also be interesting to see how Sidecar sizes up against the numerous existing delivery services that many San Francisco dispensaries already operate.
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