There is a very popular Instagram feed that pictures people doing all sorts of violence to scooters.

I myself have twice retrieved a scooter from a little creek that is by my house.

Los Angeles, like hundreds of US cities, has both a drug problem and an issue with traffic. So how

would the legalisation of cannabis and the introduction of smart scooters help alleviate these twin woes?

The fact of the matter is people are consuming cannabis, whether it's legal or not. It's better to have them

consuming tested, safe products, where it's all tracked, where it's not going to children.

I'm Jane Wakefield, and in today's Business Daily here on the BBC World Service,

we're talking about two policies from 2018 changing the face of Los Angeles,

the licensing of smart scooters and the legalization of cannabis for recreational use.

I've seen people throw them into the ocean off the pier.

Like, there's a lot of anger and hatred for them where they're being deployed.

For some, an excellent solution for a modern smart city.

For others, simply a menace.

Business Daily from the BBC World Service. On a sunny winter's day in

LA, I picked up one of the tens of thousands of scooters lining and sometimes blocking LA's pavements

and did what so many people do every hour. I hired a scooter from an app. There's three of them

in operation now, Bird, Lyme and jump, which is owned by Uber.

My scooter guide is David Reeve, who works in a neighbouring office where a cluster of scooters

sits outside.

Let's just talk it through then.

So we're here now with a bird scooter.

You open the app and it has an interactive map and the map will lead you to a bird

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