US start-up plans to deliver marijuana to customers by drone

 
Express service: Trees Delivery is hoping to get customers' weed orders to them almost immediately with drones (Picture: AFP/Getty)
Hazel Sheffield5 August 2015

A US start-up is awaiting the regulatory green light to deliver marijuana direct to smokers doors via drones.

Trees Delivery, which hopes to get the go ahead to start its service in California, will allow its customers to place orders through their phone or computer, pay with virtual currency Bitcoin and receive their goods almost instantly.

San Francisco-based Trees offers three 'boxes': the bud box, which includes exotic and hard to find strains, the extract box, which contains hash, and a beginner box.

The boxes also contain accessories such as paper and filter tips, grinders, lighters and rolling papers.

The catch? Smokers must have a medical license to order marijuana under the law.

Trees is awaiting approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration to fly its drones.

"We're not sure when we'll be launching yet," a spokesperson for Trees told the International Business Times.

"We are based in San Francisco and the legal situation here is not clear yet."

Trees is not the first company to consider drones for delivery. Amazon started promoting Amazon Prime Air earlier this year, but ran into difficulties getting approval from the same body.

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