Get your medical marijuana… from a vending machine

Yo, dude, 24-hour access: Need some medical marijuana? The Los Angeles Times reports that patients approved for use of the drug can access it at vending machines around the city, much to the chagrin of the DEA.

Yikes: Thirty minutes. That’s how much warning we’ll have if the spy satellite falls, as expected, somewhere over North America sometime between now and the end of March, Breitbart.com reports.

Yessiree: The Christian Science Monitor has a good article on seven things that will keep most employees happy at work. Unfortunately, most of them — that would require a basic compassion for the employee — are missing from corporate America.

Yuck: Hershey’s plans to raise the prices of its candy about 3 percent across the board, Reuters (via Forbes) reports.

You don’t want to know: Express India tells the tale of a doctor who preyed on poor laborers to steal one of their kidneys and did so, successfully, at least 500 times.

♣ Nation/world news tally in my local paper today: 1¾ pages