Apple has approved an iPhone and iPod application designed to help marijuana users find suitable supplies.

The catch, the application points to medical suppliers and not the decidedly dodgy types spotted hovering outside dark doorways late at night.

Cannabis for iPhone and iPod touch offers locations to medical cannabis collectives and cooperatives, doctors, clinics, attorneys, organisations, and other patient services in the thirteen states that have passed medical marijuana (cannabis) legislation in the US.

Users have the ability to search by city and zip code, while information is continuously updated and supplied by iMedicalCannabis.org and the Patient ID Center.

For those travelling further afield, and possibly of more use to those outside the US, Cannabis promises to locate the nearest legal cannabis 'coffee' shop.

Coming soon say the makers will be the addition of cannabis related news, menus, reviews and videos.

Available from the Apple iTunes App Store Cannabis costs £1.79 and requires the iPhone 3.0 Software Update.

[Via Mashable]

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