Alcohol Retailers Say Only They Should Be Able To Legally Sell Marijuana Products

[Juin]

I’ve not seen glass inside the dispensary - I’ve seen what I presume are bullet proof locked doors - typically 2 sets.

One when you first enter and a 2nd after you hand your ID over at a counter and are then buzzed into the room with product.

They won't even accept expired ID. Or at least the ones I have been to. I have expired a few licenses, but for some reason I never got rid of expired ones. One evening I had to keep pulling them out, pulling the expired ones. I did get to the current one

 

[Juin]

Mine is glass at the front desk. Check your ID and send you back through double locking doors to open sales room. One door must lock before other opens. Product is sent out of a 'vault' room through a little tray pass-thru.

Mine has a guard, armed, at the door. You enter into a room with front desk behind glass. Check your ID and you take a seat. Another door let's into sales room. Passage through this door is controlled. I suppose only a certain number are allowed in the sales room at a time. I have not been there for a while, l acquired a bag from a client/friend who is in the red with me. My vice was booze, which I quit like a decade and a half ago. Then I came down with a bad back pain that bothered me around the clock. Night was hell. Pain medication did not help and left me dizzy next day. After my struggles with Mademoiselle E&J there was no way I was going to even come close to narco based pain medication. Madame Canabis was a saviour. The pain did disappear after like fourteen months. But Madame Canabis stayed

 

[Juin]

Here are some of the claims I made:

You tell me which one is "nonfactual propaganda".

I can speak for alcohol and weed. Weed is nothing compared to alcohol. Weed is more a sensation, a ride if you will. Whereas alcohol is more like a transformer. With alcohol it's like a Mother Theresa enters a bar and a Freddy Krueger emerges after a few hours

 

[Chock Full o Nuts]

Well popped in for a resupply today. Place is getting more relaxed.

Armed guard had went a bit ago, now the double locking doors just has the inner propped open. Had lines for walk ins or online orders for whatever reason, gone. Put in kiosks for browsing or ordering I guess. I just look up what I want before going in and tell them what I want.

As far as using the debit, PIN must be used, no credit.

 

[noonereal]

guard, armed, at the door. You enter into a room with front desk behind glass. Check your ID and you take a seat. Another door let's into sales room. Passage through this door is controlled.

Good God, is it worth it?

 

[Juin]

Good God, is it worth it?

To the dispensary owners. They operate on a cash basis, meaning they are loaded with cash all day, and would be targets of robbers if they did not take these measures

 

[noonereal]

To the dispensary owners. They operate on a cash basis, meaning they are loaded with cash all day, and would be targets of robbers if they did not take these measures

They are not allowed to hire security? They are no allowed to take debt/credit cards? They can't run out several times a day to do a bank drop as other businesses do? They can't hire Brinks to pick up the cash every few hours as is done? What am I missing here?

 

[Maidenrules29]

They are not allowed to hire security? They are no allowed to take debt/credit cards? They can't run out several times a day to do a bank drop as other businesses do? They can't hire Brinks to pick up the cash every few hours as is done? What am I missing here?

The fact that there may be security around or armored truck pickups means diddly-squat to some criminal scum that are brazen enough to commit armed robberies anyway. Happens all the time.

 

[noonereal]

The fact that there may be security around or armored truck pickups means diddly-squat to some criminal scum that are brazen enough to commit armed robberies anyway. Happens all the time.

Do tell, how do they get cash out of a locked safe ?

And you ignored the rest of my post.

 

[Maidenrules29]

Do tell, how do they get cash out of a locked safe ?

And you ignored the rest of my post.

You dont think that these places have cash in register drawers behind the counter that can be taken by armed robbers?
And yes, places with safes get broken into all the time and the safes get broken into or simply taken out of the store if its not securely bolted down. I know this from experience. You think armed robbers can't dispatch security guards and then go do their business?

I dont have to respond to every bit of all posts.
What part exactly did you want me to comment on?

 

[noonereal]

You dont think that these places have cash in register drawers behind the counter that can be taken by armed robbers?

Minimal amounts, purposely. You get a few hundred dollars, i don't know how much it is today and the manager is required to drop it in a safe.

places with safes get broken into all the time and the safes get broken into or simply taken out of the store if its not securely bolted down

They are cemented in for the most part and your claim was these places were being robbed during business hours.
At night, there is only change for the next day in the store safe.
The significant cash has left the building.

You are clearly unfamiliar with how cash is handled at retail. No biggie but don't argue with me, learn. Now please go back and speak to the rest of my post.

Thank you

 

[VanceMack]

I think its a fair request...provided that it is sold in the state run liquor stores.

 

[Maidenrules29]

Minimal amounts, purposely. You get a few hundred dollars, i don't know how much it is today and the manager is required to drop it in a safe.

They are cemented in for the most part and your claim was these places were being robbed during business hours.
At night, there is only change for the next day in the store safe.
The significant cash has left the building.

You are clearly unfamiliar with how cash is handled at retail. No biggie but don't argue with me, learn. Now please go back and speak to the rest of my post.

Thank you

I worked in restaurant management for years. On Monday mornings there would be a whole weekend's worth of cash in the safe that got run to the bank.
As for the rest of your post, what did you want me to comment on? Multiple bank runs throughout the day? I guess that could happen but then again savvy criminals could stake the place out and start knowing when those runs were happening.
debit/credit cards? Most cant due to the Feds frowning upon that.

 

[Maidenrules29]

Minimal amounts, purposely. You get a few hundred dollars, i don't know how much it is today and the manager is required to drop it in a safe.

They are cemented in for the most part and your claim was these places were being robbed during business hours.
At night, there is only change for the next day in the store safe.
The significant cash has left the building.

You are clearly unfamiliar with how cash is handled at retail. No biggie but don't argue with me, learn. Now please go back and speak to the rest of my post.

Thank you

I never said or insinuated that robbers were breaking into safes in the middle of the business day.

 

[noonereal]

I worked in restaurant management for years. On Monday mornings there would be a whole weekend's worth of cash in the safe that got run to the bank.
As for the rest of your post, what did you want me to comment on? Multiple bank runs throughout the day? I guess that could happen but then again savvy criminals could stake the place out and start knowing when those runs were happening.
debit/credit cards? Most cant due to the Feds frowning upon that.

Whatever the restaurant you worked in was very poorly manged. A chain would fire the manager for leaving money in there.

Now the place is being staked out? Ok, can happen. That is why you use Brinks.
You paint a portrait of a scene that does not exist.

And why do they not accept credit cards.

 

[noonereal]

I never said or insinuated that robbers were breaking into safes in the middle of the business day.

So they are breaking glass, setting off alarms to attack a cemented down safe with a couple of hundred dollars of small bills?
Trust me, you are big time mistaken in your understanding of how cash is accounted for and handled.

 

[RF667799]

So they are breaking glass, setting off alarms to attack a cemented down safe with a couple of hundred dollars of small bills?
Trust me, you are big time mistaken in your understanding of how cash is accounted for and handled.

The marijuana dispensary you patronize should hire you as their security consultant.

 

[noonereal]

The marijuana dispensary you patronize should hire you as their security consultant.

No doubt and this is not even one of my fields of expertise.

 

[CLAX1911]

Alcohol Retailers Say Only They Should Be Able To Legally Sell Marijuana Products

A new policy memo from an American alcohol retail industry group argues that marijuana should be regulated more like booze—including by requiring that intoxicating cannabis products be sold only by businesses licensed to sell alcohol. “States should restrict the sale of intoxicating THC products...

www.marijuanamoment.net

Dispensary has not failed yet to request my ID, and scan it(transaction recorded in the system, even if I paid cash?). Hell, they ask for it twice! Once walking in, and again when at counter for purchase. Can't recall the last time I was carded for alcohol.



Pretty sure that is already the case. Or maybe I'm just so baked every time I read about non-existent requirements, I'm completely misunderstanding?

Wait for it....

There it is! Knew it was coming. Why didn't you just say so, instead of two pages of shit?


Offer you some cheese with that whine?


I know... All the DUI fatalities, liver disease, etc... It's just terrible. Oh wait, that's tied to alcohol.
Weed is terrible, therefore we should be the only ones allowed to sell it.

I've read about how the dispensary system encourages drug trafficking from illegal sources.

Essentially the dispensary is for people who don't know how to procure it illegally cheaper. Since the use of it has become legal and probably not going to get into a lot of trouble for having it or using it.

 

[bythoughts]

Well, in this day and age of gun nutters, maybe that particular location warranted it, perhaps there was an incident there. I've never seen the bullet proof glass, I've only seen clean, well run dispensaries where the customers and staff are polite, efficient and friendly.

It's not the customers, it's the federal law. Which means banks are afraid to do business with dispensaries ('Know Your Customer'). Which means that dispensaries have fabulous sums of cash to hold and move around physically. Hence the risk of attack.

 

[Lord of Planar]

I've read about how the dispensary system encourages drug trafficking from illegal sources.

Essentially the dispensary is for people who don't know how to procure it illegally cheaper. Since the use of it has become legal and probably not going to get into a lot of trouble for having it or using it.

The dispensary, at least here in Oregon, making it legal, has dramatically reduced the costs to the common citizen. I would say by as much as a a factor of 10. An ounce of good buds would be around $300+ before it was legalized. Now higher quality is normally about $50, but catch a sale for $25.

 

[Maidenrules29]

The dispensary, at least here in Oregon, making it legal, has dramatically reduced the costs to the common citizen. I would say by as much as a a factor of 10. An ounce of good buds would be around $300+ before it was legalized. Now higher quality is normally about $50, but catch a sale for $25.

I'm right across the OR border. Can you please tell me this dispensary selling an ounce of bud for $25????????

 

[Lord of Planar]

I'm right across the OR border. Can you please tell me this dispensary selling an ounce of bud for $25????????

You have to catch one of their half price sales.

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[RF667799]

Geez...I just checked the dispensary here that I use and their cheapest oz was $150. That's before the local and state taxes. Those would add $25 or so.

 

[Lord of Planar]

The NE 122nd location has some at $39: