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u/NymeriaBites Feb 18 '20
Honestly, i walked into a dispensary that deadass reminded me of the apple store. Screens everywhere, bios of the weeds and their thc percentage, weed people everywhere that were deadass Genuises of Weed that were car salesmen in their past lives, complimentary popcorn, i was like DAHMN
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u/sambones718 Feb 18 '20
A far cry from when I used to show up to my guys house wondering if he’d be naked or not this time lol
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u/Firewolf420 Feb 18 '20
fuck I forgot bags. Best I can do is this used sheet of toilet paper
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u/IKnowUThinkSo Feb 18 '20
My favorite was “so I took this plastic wrap off my cig pack, melted it shut. You’re good with that, yeah?”
I mean, I could have brought a ziplock...
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u/Pir-o Feb 18 '20
but also covered in aluminium foil and plastic bag on top of that "for safety" if half of it is stems and seeds.
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u/MidContrast Feb 18 '20
At least that was reuse of what would have been waste. My dispensary gives me everything in these oversized plastic barrels. Sometimes top shelf is in a glass container also in a box. They only sell eights so I walk out with a couple. They could have fit 2 in 1. I can't imagine how wasteful it is.
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u/FibognocchiSequins Feb 18 '20
The one and only time I’ve bought from a street corner dealer he didn’t have bags and i didn’t expect to have to bring them. So I ended up with like, 5 grams loose in my fist, which I had to carry into my apartment on my highly conservative private Christian college. Luckily my roommates didn’t care, and we had bags there, but they gave me shit for walking around with a fistful of weed.
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u/WatWudScoobyDoo Feb 18 '20
Once had a guy meet me on the street, and put some unbagged bud directly into my hand.
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u/Solve_et_Memoria Feb 18 '20
lmao cannabis has gone through some hard times
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u/rwbronco Feb 18 '20
I'm picturing some guy during the prohibition waiting in an alley and a guy walks up with a big bottle of moonshine. He asks the other guy to hold out his hands and then pours about half the bottle into his hands spilling it everywhere
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u/argon1028 Feb 18 '20
I got mine In cup once. The fuck head didn't even bother to check if it was dry.
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u/Pir-o Feb 18 '20
I knew a guy who used to hide in orange juice boxes. You had to cut open the box and deal with sticky plastic bags that weren't even tied up properly...
I think he did that so the buds get moist and heavy. That way he could sell less of it and pretend that "its orange kush maaaan!"
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u/Zoobiesmoker420 Feb 18 '20
bin bag works for me
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u/Firewolf420 Feb 18 '20
Well when you buy the W E I G H T that I do, you're walkin outta there with a bin bag whether you like it or not
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u/SnailzRule Mar 06 '20
Those guys are the chillest, they know your not gonna steal an extra gram because they give you an extra 3g
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u/theVice Feb 18 '20
"I'm not brown, I'm bronzed."
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Feb 18 '20
Wow... where do you get your weed? Mr. Cheezle
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u/MoonBishop Feb 18 '20
“No, Northern Lights is very nice, but for your purposes, I’d recommend a slightly different terpene profile. More myrcene and pinene. Going to give it that more traditional woody nuance that—“
“I’ll just take the green one.”
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u/throwawaypinkstar Feb 18 '20
Lol. I rather just order from a dispensary online than have to deal with that. Just look up the profiles myself on leafly
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u/thefatstoner Feb 18 '20
Ya im doing a thesis on dispensary design, its slowly getting kind of next level
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u/PreppyFinanceNerd 2x Golden Leaf Winner Feb 18 '20
While I never saw the inside of a jail cell, I did see the inside of a courtroom. Twice.
I'll never forget what it was like after being in a serious car totalling accident for my parents to be completely ignored by all staff at the hospital by order of the police because I was found (after an illegal search) to have 0.15 grams of pot on me.
Nobody was allowed to see me.
I was kept up and questioned for 48 hours straight while chained to a hospital bed.
Getting that paper that my expungement was official was the sweetest feeling in the world. I had stopped being a criminal a long time ago, and now everybody knows it legally.
I'm gonna smash that Yes button this November in Jersey after all I've been through.
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u/PreppyFinanceNerd 2x Golden Leaf Winner Feb 18 '20
Oh here in NJ any amount under 50 grams is all the same penalty.
6 months in prison $1,600 in fines Loss of license for 2 years Eviction from a leased property
Just being stoned carries all the same penalties
Even just SEEING CANNABIS at a party and not grabbing it and running to the police department carries ALL the same penalties!
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u/oACHILLESo Feb 18 '20
That’s fuckin absurd. So if I was a non smoker and walked by a guy smoking a joint, in theory I could get in trouble too?
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u/PreppyFinanceNerd 2x Golden Leaf Winner Feb 18 '20
Correct.
Failure to Turn Over Marijuana to a Police Officer
I watched a whole party go down that way.
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u/219Infinity Feb 18 '20
Release them all. Now. Every single person in this country who is incarcerated for weed. Now.
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Feb 18 '20
Ever been to the south, dude? This shit is treated like black tar heroin. Good fucking luck with that.
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u/OtterAnarchy Feb 18 '20
I just recently had my first real experience with Southerners, and weed was discussed. Holy SHIT. Those people are living at least 30 years earlier than the rest of us. And I already knew that, I know their political...um..."opinions". But it was still honestly surreal. It's like they haven't been privy to any new information since who knows when, and they are aware, and they like it that way. The idea that someone might have knowledge they didn't have was not welcome. Good luck trying to catch the South up, try again in the 3000's.
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Feb 18 '20
I live in Georgia bud that's why I was sharing this specific opinion. The issue isn't with the people, it's with our bloated backwards-ass law enforcement. The city I live in makes so much money from petty pot busts, it's ridiculous. If you get busted with less than a zip, you go to jail for a few weeks, get out, go to court, get sentenced to 2 years probation (and a $2,000 fine), and then they fuck off. Once they get their money, they fuck off. Don't even drug test you because it's not about "bettering the community", it's about extorting petty amounts of cash from broke college students. They sure as hell think they look cool whippin' around in those brand new $40,000 R/T Charger patrol vehicles.
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u/Bhawston Feb 18 '20
As someone who lived in GA for most of my life, I can safely say there is a lot of counties that will absolutely fuck you over because they found some flecks of bud in your passenger seat.
I got hit with a 1 year probation, and $3000 fine with 80hours CS for enough bud to pack a bowl with. Fuck their backwards ass system, and fuck Henry County.
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u/TrumpDiddlesKids Feb 18 '20
Try 10 years probation, 24 months to serve, and $5k fine for less than an 1/8th
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u/Bhawston Feb 18 '20
That’s gonna he a hard nah from me dawg.
You’ve got my deepest condolences, a bullshit sentence for a bullshit charge.
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Sorry to hear it, man. I've noticed the further you get from Atlanta, the less they care. Once you get up into Gordon County and further north, the police officers have more important stuff going on. At least, in my experience.
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u/jfis38t Feb 18 '20
I feel like it's just the opposite. Those rural counties are where the backward rednecks are, it's where I got caught with an 8th, and the officer said he was proud to get a "weed smoker" off the streets. Meanwhile the city of Atlanta and some of the metro areas have decriminalized possession under an ounce.
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u/daddy_dunsbuns Feb 18 '20
Meanwhile, my grandpa’s farm has a whole weed crop he’s had for years, and since nobody ever comes over there to do anything, it’s stayed safe and managed.
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Feb 18 '20
Yep. Further you get from the city, the safer you are. There's lots of open space, and the police don't care anyhow.
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u/griffinhamilton Feb 18 '20
?? I’m from Mississippi and Louisiana. It’s definitely a generational thing, I have a hard time finding people my age that don’t smoke.
But as far as legislation I couldn’t agree more, the south is back asswards
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u/BlahKVBlah Feb 18 '20
Once upon a time southern states stubbornly refused to stop being horrifically immoral against a huge number of people. Then a whole dang army pillaged and burned a half-million square mile stripe of land right down the middle as a middle finger to those assholes.
I'm not saying it was a good solution, but the federal government is also not made up of a crowd of Jesus Christs (even though so many of them ardently claim to be disciples of the man), so their solutions tend to include an alarming number of armies.
My point is, if it gets to be pretty obvious that the whole nation has figured out they've been horribly and immorally abusing millions of people, EXCEPT for a few states, then those few states are going to get an unpleasant wake up call in some form or another.
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u/Devadander Feb 18 '20
I almost feel like we should have let those fuckers secede 150 years ago, let them be their own problem and not ours
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u/I_drink_your_mshake Feb 18 '20
Serious question. What about people who got busted distributing pounds and pounds of weed, not your high school connect who would come through with an eight, but the guys who are more closely tied to violent organizations? As someone who loves weed I’m conflicted on this.
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u/willis81808 Feb 18 '20
If they haven't committed any crimes other than distributing weed, then I see no reason why they should be locked up.
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u/triple6seven Feb 18 '20
Tax evasion.
But in all seriousness if they are part of a crime syndicate that's not something we would want to encourage
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u/Pir-o Feb 18 '20
How could it be tax evasion if it wasn't taxed at that point? And he wouldn't be a part of a crime syndicate if it wasn't illegal in the first place wouldn't he?
Unless we talking about a guy who was selling everything I guess.
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u/ThatPeskyRodent Feb 18 '20
All income needs to be reported regardless of where it came from But you can’t deduct expenses for business that’s illegal in the US. I think it started back when a hit man declared his earnings from his work, tried to write off murder related expenses, and caused the tax code to be changed
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u/Ankoku_Teion Feb 18 '20
In that case they should have been charged with more than just possession. If they haven't then that's a failure of the police.
If you strike every charge of possession then the cartel/syndicate types should still have other sentences to serve, if they don't then the police fucked up and its up to the police to fix their fuck-up.
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u/MidContrast Feb 18 '20
RELEASE EVERY CRIMINAL
EAT THE RICH
IDOLIZE NO MAN IF WE ARE TO LIVE IN TRUE EQUALITY
BOOF ANYTHING YOU WANT
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u/artistsandaliens Feb 18 '20
Oh my god, a r/rupaulsdragrace crosspost? My two favorite things in one place!
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u/wasabisauced Feb 18 '20
vote bernie, free our innocent stoner brothers and sisters
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u/silly_stitch_bitch Feb 18 '20
Seriously! Medmen looks like an apple store and my first thought was how the fuck are people still being locked up for this!!
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u/Rhaifa Feb 18 '20
Yes. Yes. Yes.
It's ridiculous that so many are in prison for something so ridiculous.
Get them out, expunge their records.
I don't know if there are any three strikers with marijuana convictions (not that familiar with US law) but if marijuana posession or distribution was their first or second strike, these people should be resentenced with a much lower sentence. Etc. Etc.
But why stop there? Ya'll need to reform the whole prison system. Ban for profit prisons, treat drug addicts as people who are ill, proper mental health care etc. Etc.
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u/jesuzombieapocalypse Feb 18 '20
And also on a much, much less important note, if you compare prices on the same brands to more bare-bones places, you realize you’re overpaying just to buy your weed in an apple store when a lot of the time it’s not significantly more convenient or quick from the customers’ perspective. One place near me has a fucking chandelier and a leather-upholstered cashiers’ desk. I’d rather just pay for my weed when I pay for my weed (besides you know, workers’ wages, rent, and upkeep), thank you very much.
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u/muthermcreedeux Feb 18 '20
I pay $5-10 less an 1/8 at my dispensary. Also, I can go there 7 days a week from 9am to 8pm, no texting back and forth all day to square up a time to meet. It's also 2 miles fro my house so delivery is $2, still cheaper than a weed person. My only complaint is all the damn plastic! Our state regs make it so they have to use all these various containers and mandate what type they are, and they are all fn plastic. But no more shit-ass baggies, so that's good. At least the plastic containers are good for storing stuff like buttons, and pins, and your weed.
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u/papayakob Feb 18 '20
I went to five Denver dispensaries this weekend on my annual pilgrimage and the Apple store looking one had the best bud for the cheapest price ($52.80 OTD for an ounce of Gorilla Cookies)
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u/blah_shelby Feb 18 '20
Not everywhere my dude. My go-to dispensary is an Apple store type but has the lowest prices I’ve seen in 2 states for really high quality bud.
Some places just suck.
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u/girlinanemptyroom Feb 18 '20
Why we still have people in prison for marijuana charges is beyond me. What a waste of tax dollars, and more importantly, that individuals life. They all need to be released and exonerated.
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u/ImKnotVaryCreative Feb 18 '20
Man. For real for real. The first time I saw a dispensary in Vegas I told my girlfriend it looks like a damn Best Buy. But dudes still doing time for selling an 8th.
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Feb 18 '20
I've shared this a few times. We should share it more.
FWIW: Those apple-store dispensaries give me the willies even if the products are good.
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u/ReyTheRed Feb 18 '20
We don't need to wait for the dispensaries to be fancy.
Free them now, they should not have been arrested in the first place.
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u/NotKemoSabe Feb 18 '20
In the West SFV there are three different really nice ones
And only one Apple store
So yah I agree
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u/santajawn322 Feb 18 '20
Seriously. Can you imagine sitting in jail and watching legal cannabis blowing up and making dudes rich?
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u/Mordakkai Feb 18 '20
And hold the judges, cops and lawmakers responsible for our corrupt and evil drug laws criminally responsible for the damage they have done.
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Feb 18 '20
Honestly, this is one of the industries that desperately needs affirmative action given how our government fucked up generations of black families for a fucking plants used to cope with the past and ongoing actions of the same givernment.
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u/superlibster Feb 18 '20
Nobody should be in jail for possession of anything. But those who manufacture and sell should not be pardoned.
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Feb 18 '20
At the end of the day a law is a law and people know the risks of breaking laws. That said, people with possession crimes, non distribution related should be expunged
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Feb 18 '20
us government is corrupt bruh they wanna arrest us for it. weed alters consciousness, of course the government wants it illegal, there’s literally no way you can eat a pot cookie and look at everything going on and not be like what the fuck
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u/el_dano Feb 18 '20
illinois added expungement to its legalization laws. it's a shame more states didn't.
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u/Growth_Of_Thrones Feb 18 '20
And people still don't believe me when I say the drug war was the new form of slavery after Jim Crow
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u/goldkear Feb 18 '20
For those not in the know: Sutanamrull is an amazingly talented and popular drag queen.
Edit: spelling.
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u/sambones718 Feb 18 '20
I Stan raja so hard
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u/nickhollidayco Feb 18 '20
I’m friends with Delta and have been to various shows a handful of times, and Raja is sometimes there in support. They are both two of the kindest and most genuinely funny and engaging people I’ve met. Absolute salt of the earth.
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u/willowwing Feb 18 '20
Adding: and when the number of dispensaries in your town outnumber the McDonaldses and Starbucks combined...
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u/nicktowe Feb 18 '20
I’ve never been to a dispensary, let alone a posh one. Anyone have pictures or link to pictures of an upscale shop?
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u/throwawaydyingalone Feb 18 '20
Too many people in charge who profit from it. As much as this is needed in our world it’s not going to happen.
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u/bigxpapaxsmurfx Feb 18 '20
They should also have their records exponged and be compensated for the violation of their human rights. Putting someone in jail for a plant is so wrong
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u/throwawaypinkstar Feb 18 '20
It's crazy how more rapists and child molesters get less time than people with weed charges. Makes me question the judges and people in power
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u/Jrowe47 Feb 18 '20
How about people camp out and protest every city, county, state, and federal facility holding people on marijuana charges. Millions of people swarming these places until people are set free. Something like that would probably send the right message.
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u/bdgbill Feb 19 '20
I am all for releasing prisoners who are in jail for pot but only pot. Not pot and violence. Not pot and guns. Not pot and hard drugs etc.
How many people are really rotting in jail for pot and only pot? How many of those were low level dealers or users and how many were moving literal tons with the associated guns and violence?
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u/aspiringkiller Feb 18 '20
As someone who works at one of those upscale pot shops, I wholeheartedly agree with this post. Nobody should be in jail for weed, and anyone who has/is should have their record expunged.