Vincent Mehdizadeh’s recent profile in Adweek caught the attention of America’s top local talk radio show, The John and Ken Show on KFI AM 640, on which CNBC’s Jane Wells filled in as host for, the most-listened-to in the United States drawing an estimated weekly audience of approximately 1.2 million listeners, and spoke to, a client of Los Angeles tech public relations firm PMBC Group.
Vincent Mehdizadeh, founder and senior strategist of Medbox, is a pioneer in the medical marijuana industry and spoke to Jane Wells after she read Mehdizadeh’s profile in Adweek. Mehdizadeh spoke to Jane about the company’s safe dispensing systems as well as other trending business and legal marijuana issues.
Before getting into the crux of the interview, Mehdizadeh begins by stating that “the first misconceived notion is that Medbox is a vending machine.” Mehdizadeh goes on to clarify that “Medbox sells secure safes that dispense medicine using biometric verification” and that only “dispensary employees have access to the safes so that inventory control can be had as well as proper taxation tracking and compliance can be met.”
Along with selling safe dispensing machines to dispensaries, which Mehdizadeh calls a “minute detail” in what Medbox specifically does, Medbox “matches entrepreneurs with opportunities in the growing industry in a compliant and transparent manner.”
When talking about Medbox’s dipping share price, Mehdizadeh mentions that although he is not currently a billionaire, he has been so for six months in the past two years and the point in calling himself a billionaire is that he is in the process of writing his autobiography. The book titled Self Made, will detail his life journey of overcoming personal challenges and tragedies in order to achieve personal success. The book will be out in January 2015, and all proceeds will be donated to select charities that are close to Mehdizadeh’s heart.
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