San Francisco: Ride-share company Sidecar delivers medical marijuana to homes

San Francisco's Sidecar company is offering its clientele a new service — the delivery of medical marijuana to customers' doors an hour after it is ordered.

The ride-hailing startup has partnered with Meadow, an on-demand marijuana delivery company, to provide the service, providing customers have a medical marijuana card prescribing cannabis use from their doctors. Only marijuana for medical purposes is legal in the state of California.

Asked by CNET if a link to marijuana might tarnish the reputation of his brand, Sidecar company CEO Sunil Paul said: "If it's legal and fits in the car, we can deliver. The same things we do for medical marijuana we can do for alcohol delivery."

Sidecar usually transports people but it needed to expand its services to boost its bottom line. The car company was born before rivals Uber and Lyft but has been struggling...

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