The president is a one-man countervailing force and dispensary of justice.
But walk into a dispensary in, say, Cameroon, and you discover that such drugs are equally scarce there not because they are not needed, but because nobody can afford them.Lack of money not only restricts access to existing drugs and vaccines and means of dispensing them; it also offers little incentive for drug companies to develop new medicines for people in poor countries.
In 2011, Mr Rtibi was working at the dispensary, earning 200 dinars per month ($121).
An assistant manager at the dispensary, she explained that the heavy security was necessary because the business is still associated in the popular mind with crime and other drug-dependent populations.
In 1998, for example, 80,000 rupees were supposedly spent on renovating Janawad's dispensary.
Who better to help a dispensary implement them?Participants in the conference speculated about the shape the industry might take as it develops.
He also runs a dispensary for medical marijuana and sponsored a 2010 ballot measure in California to legalise marijuana completely in small amounts, whether medicinal or recreational.
Iwaya's dispensary, a stuffy bamboo cubicle above the swamp, sells plenty of chloroquine, one of the oldest and cheapest anti-malarials, which is nearly useless in most of the rest of Africa.Last week, two organs of the United Nations, the World Health Organisation and Unicef, issued a comprehensive report on African malaria, the first of its kind.
The head-shop clerk directed me to a reputable "dispensary" half a mile away.
Some customers have psychological issues; others may think of a marijuana dispensary as a more legitimate target for robbery than a regular store.In Amsterdam, I paid for my joint with my bank card.
Concentrates, which can deliver a quick, intense buzz, account for around one-third of sales at Rain City, a dispensary south of Seattle.
