iPhone apps can find just about anything. They can help you find a job, locate your friends, or just pinpoint a gas station. But a new app is promising to find you something far more controversial: marijuana.

Apple has approved a new $2.99 iPhone app, aptly named Cannabis [iTunes link]. It's made by the also appropriately-named Ajnag.com. The purpose of the app is to help locate legal medical marijuana in states and locations where it can be found. Will this app lead thousands of iPhone users to cannabis, or is it a tool of a movement in favor of marijuana legalization? The answer, surprisingly, is both:

Locating more than just pot









The application is a location-based service, pure and simple. It takes the known locations of medical collectives, doctors, clinics, and organizations from three sources and aggregates them on a Google Map. When you activate the app, it will determine your location and provide you with the nearest location where you can acquire marijuana.

Thus, if you can legally purchase cannabis, you can use this app to find it. But what if you don't have a license or live in an area where medical marijuana is not legalized? This app also has an answer - it will show you the nearest cannabis organizations in your area so you can promote reform. It even covers international travel by showing you legal cannabis coffee shops.

As you would expect, Cannabis has a strong message about its social responsibility and that it does not promote illegal cannabis use without a physician's recommendation. And this app doesn't help you find dealers or anything shady of the sort. Its smart to add the location of activist groups, as most states don't legalize marijuana.

While its current features aren't all that exciting or revolutionary, it promises to have news updates, videos, and reviews in the near future. It looks like marijuana smokers everywhere finally have an app they can rally behind.