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mark Manasseh used to visit a dispensary for medical marijuana to ease the pain from his multiple sclerosis now all he needs to do is place an order on his phone and it can arrive at his door in less than an hour I like that they showed me the expected delivery time and so I can figure out okay I better finish cooking dinner in them so I'll be ready for when the delivery arrives a new wave of apps started in the San Francisco Bay Area hope to create a new market for delivery services that some are calling the uber for pot quill offers on-demand delivery for customers with a medical marijuana card meadow has deliveries from different dispensaries and also provides doctor consultations for those needing a card well we try to be pretty thorough in assessing the patient's past medical history that indications the reasons that they're looking for help from the medication in California medical marijuana is big business sales hit over 1.1 billion dollars in 2014 we work with about four dispensaries currently in the in the San Francisco area we started building them tools help them manage their business to help manage your logistics I'll manage the patient compliance and documentation upload with services like ease supported by investors such as snoop dogg technology that helps speed up pot delivery is pushing the once taboo market into the limelight but regulations are strict for patients and drivers it is up to one ounce on any given day of flower a product that any individual can purchase on a day-by-day basis and nobody can purchase over there regulated amount I didn't given time many of the services require drivers to have medical marijuana cards drivers could be carrying several hundred dollars worth of cannabis which may create a security concern so discretion is key the places that I've been lucky enough to work deliver to I've been cool people but I am pretty tall that's a that's a nice thing to have on your side then there's the legal haze of payments marijuana is illegal at the federal level so banks won't get involved these businesses mostly rely on cash or the cryptocurrency bitcoin for now manasa is making the most of the convenience in San Francisco Lexus avedis cnet.com for CBS News