For the average person, the big relief comes in finding a reliable and honest source instead of having to go "streetcorner".  Although I'd certainly advise dispensary clients to exercise good situational awareness both when coming and leaving.

There's a certain amount of irony that this first dispensary is just a few short blocks from where the old police station used to be (the Sears store on S. Beretania and Kalakaua for you malihini) and the long-closed gun store on Young St. where Mark David Chapman bought the gun he used to murder John Lennon in NY.