This California K.F.C. Sells Marijuana Instead Of Chicken
We just love obvious conversions of former fast food restaurants, but this has to be the best one we've ever seen. A former Kentucky Fried Chicken has been replaced with "Kind For Cures," a marijuana dispensary, says LA Weekly.
It turns out that the KFC has been replaced by... a KFC. In this instance, though, the KFC stands for "Kind For Cures", and while they do sell things that are edible, you can't buy them, or even ask about them, without a prescription.
I bet Yum Brands is just thrilled.
New KFC Opens In Palms? Sort of...(Instead of Fried Chicken, They Sell Marijuana) [LA Weekly]
(Photo: Noah Galuten)
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Yeah, weed isn't legal in California.
Note to the rest of the country, this is what happens when you elect a steroid infused pot-head brain dead as the govenor, just because OMG HE WAS THE TERMINATOR!!! WOW VOTE FOR HIM!!!
@Radi0logy: Medical marijuana is decrimilized and dispencaries are legal in CA. Also this movement started well before Ahnold and IIRC was done by Initiative.
Cease and desist letter/lawsuit in 3...2...1...
@Radi0logy: Medicinal marijuana is legal at the state level in CA, not at the federal level. It also happens to be an efficient tax revenue generator.
I think I'd rather have a womanizing steroid popper who was famous for Conan than the limp wristed corporate shill we have in FL.
@Radi0logy: OMG! Blame the Terminator!
It's horrid! People who use this stuff legally now have a store to go to instead of some shady guy on a corner! OMG!
@Radi0logy: I don't generally agree with him, but he has done a lot for the fight toward Marijuana decriminlization.
@Radi0logy: Uhh, I thought this was going on before he was there, wasn't it?
Seriously, I thought it was and I am really asking.
They should sell fried chicken too. I'm sure it would do well.
Yeah, I don't see KFC, YUM, Pepsico, or whoever owns them taking too kindly to the proximity of the name. Of course that doesn't mean that a few "transactions" didn't take place while it was a chicken joint.
@Radi0logy: OMG! It's horrible! Legally dispensing medication which has been prescribed from a doctor that will actually help people!
Don't we know medicine better than all of those guys with their medical degrees and hippocratic oaths?
Your move, popeyes....
Now that the dispensary has moved in, KFC will be opening a store on either side.
I'm still surprised Frito-Lay hasn't gotten in on this...I mean, aside from making a snack called "Munchies".
Seriously, I thought it was and I am really asking.
@The Porkchop Express: I second that. At the very least I thought there was a serious effort to make it happen (legal challenges and the like) even if it didn't actually happen before he took office.
@Radi0logy: It's legal on the state level, and Obama has said he will not go after people doing it according to state laws. The DEA tried to bust one compassionate care facility a short time after the big O took office and he politely told them to drop charges and stop the nonsense.
I won't get into a debate about why weed hasn't been legalized across the board, because I think we're still a long way off for that. My question, what is wrong with people who have chronic pain, cancer, chronic nausea and other verfified problems using weed as any other medication?
Plus, it makes a sh*t ton of cash for the states. How, again, is this a bad thing.
I bet they make a killing on Chicken Pot Pie.
I thought marijuana was used to alleviate symptoms of particular ailments. What does it cure?
@sicknick:
quick disclosure; I happen to be for marijuana leagalization acroos the board. That said, you know that a huge number of these prescriptions are bs, right? I mean, it's kind of an open secret that there a /ton/ of docs who write scripts for vague anxiety disorders and the like. Bottomn line is, any adult in Calif. who wants medical marijuana can get it--anyone.
@lannister80: Ok, I guess my idea of cure is a little different than some. Cure to me means that the disease has been irradicated in it's entirety.
I suppose "Doobie Shack" was already trademarked?
@outshined: ++!! I am dying of boredom right now and a little weed would totally save me.
Also, just like booze, it helps to kill the slow brain cells, so only the fast ones are left.
@Radi0logy: Dude - lighten up and smoke one. And while you are watch the movie "Saving Grace" instead of your favorite "Reefer Madness".
IT GROWS IN THE GROUND. It is NOT evil. What IS evil is all of these modern synthetic drugs deliberately designed to get you addicted, screwing up your health and paying off your doctor to keep it all going, so a corporation can get rich while gutting your innerds.
It is just deranged that the Right Wing loonies declare war on nature, but fight for the "RIGHT" of corporations to kill us all with chemicals.
Your rife hypocrisy is revolting. Start thinking before posting and voting.
The KFC in my hometown closed years ago and a local pizza joint took it over- drive through window and all. It's pretty cool to all in a pizza order and pick it up at the drive through.
Right down the street is the former Taco Bell that became a donut shop. I find the obvious mexican flair of it to be highly amusing.
I wish I could find the story in question, but I thought this was going to be another story about how ordering "biscuits" at a KFC drive thru meant that someone got some weed with their order instead of actual biscuits.
@The_Legend: As long as they aren't in the same industry (Medical and Fast Food) they are allowed to use whatever name they want. I could start a company called Best Buy Taxi Service or whatever. Thats how I understand it anyway, can someone clarify?
@Areyouagoodlittleconsumer: LOL! I make a comment about electing Ah-nald (a republican, mind you), and that makes me a right wing loony trying to kill you with chemicals?
Is paranoia a side effect of excessive marijuana use? Hm.. let me see.. hallucinations and delusions.. close enough.
By the way, arsenic kind of 'grows in the ground', would you like to smoke some? You clearly are well-informed and of sound mind.
@Radi0logy: this is what happens when you elect a steroid infused pot-head brain dead as the govenor
If my total recollection is correct, didn't Gray Davis sign the Medical Marijuana Program Act?
Besides, doesn't the California governor have very little power to do anything?
They had one of those in Mill Valley, California in the early 90s. Of course, this was before the medical marijuana law in California. Anyway, if you went to the drive-through at the Kentucky Fried Chicken on Miller Avenue and asked for your meal to be "extra-crispy with extra biscuits", you got "special greens" with your order. It was doubtless very popular with the students from the high school up the street. Eventually it became so well-known, the local cops heard about it and busted 'em.
@thaShady: Just think of any business entity with the word Monster in it. And ask them if they have gotten the Lawdogs from Monster Cable biting at their legs
@treimel: Oh, I know, but I'll play the game of "It's ok for medical but not for recreational" all day long just to have a better platform to stand on when talking to anti-drug types.
This explains where the idea for that new "Double Down" sandwich came from.