Marijuana was definitely an open secret in my family

It is a genuinely odd feeling to have your Dad hand you cash for a cannabis purchase! My mom will eventually write out a list of the cannabis products they need, and dad hands me enough cash to cover the bill… plus a few extra bucks for myself

Until recently marijuana has been an “open secret” in my family! I have been a pothead since high university, and my parents knew this however never said anything; but at first I thought it was because they were cool people, which they are… However, later I discovered they were also potheads; my folks were both university teachers, so they had to keep it quiet that they appreciated getting stoned. I feel the pear doesn’t fall far from the tree after all! Last year the issue of marijuana legalization came up on the statewide ballot, and was voted through with a resounding success! The people have finally spoken, and they want legal cannabis! As I said, this takes the pressure off of me to keep my marijuana use a secret, because it’s no longer illegal! Since my parents still teach elementary university, they still don’t want people to know they get high, so I have started going to the cannabis dispensary on their behalf. It is a genuinely odd feeling to have your Dad hand you cash for a cannabis purchase! My mom will eventually write out a list of the cannabis products they need, and dad hands me enough cash to cover the bill… plus a few extra bucks for myself. It’s such a wholesome scene of family togetherness, isn’t it? Oddly enough, I rarely smoke cannabis with my parents, even though my pal and I all do it, my pal and I all do it separately. My parents like to smoke cannabis on the back porch these days, while I usually do it in my kitchen while I am writing or listening to music.

 

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A second job delivering cannabis

In order to make money, sometimes you have to buckle down and make sacrifices.

I wish that money wasn’t so hard to come by, because I prefer taking it easy, getting high, and spending time with my family.

None of those things can pay the rent, so I have to sacrifice my free time and pick up extra hours and sideline jobs. I was doing a little content writing online, but then the money dried up, so I started looking for something where I could earn tips. I found my answer at the local cannabis dispensary, which was looking for local delivery drivers. This is near the downtown area, with a lot of high rises and apartment buildings, so I thought riding my bike would be a faster way to deliver cannabis. The owner of the shop didn’t believe me, so I made him a wager – have me work against a cannabis delivery driver and see who did it faster. For one shift I offered to work for free, delivering cannabis on my bike, to prove I was faster than a car. By the end of the night I had made twice as many cannabis deliveries as the guy in the car, and was given the job. Although I worked “off the clock” that night and didn’t get an hourly wage, I found that the cannabis customers were all very generous with their tips. Since I made twice as many cannabis deliveries, I made twice the tips. I think I am going to do very well at this new job.
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Paying my way through college with cannabis

Paying your own way through college used to be possible.

  • Today it is definitely not possible.

In order to earn a degree a person has to go into a lot of debt. Back then I managed to scrimp and save and work a few sideline jobs to pay for my tuition. It was not an easy life, but I managed to get my bachelor’s degree without incurring any student loan debt! Part of the reason I was able to do this was by doing cannabis deliveries for the local dispensary. Cars were not allowed on campus, so the fastest way to deliver cannabis to the students was on bicycle. I rode my bike everywhere already, so I was the perfect guy to wheel bags of cannabis to the dormitories and lecture halls. I made weed deliveries everywhere, often riding for hours on end. I preferred taking cannabis to the adult housing section, a place for faculty and staff members to live in townhouse apartments. This was a longer ride, but the older people always tipped way better than the college students. On the other hand, sometimes the students would offer me a gratuity of the cannabis I had just delivered to them. I always accept any tip offers to me, cash or cannabis, although I prefer cash. Not only did the cannabis delivery job pay well, it also kept me in amazing physical condition. BecauseI worked so much at night for the cannabis shop, I had no social life, and was able to put all my wages and tips towards my schooling.
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Kittens left behind the cannabis dispensary

Pot smokers are the coolest people in the world. Non-smokers don’t get it, but in the weed community there is a sense of honor and kindness. Potheads look out for each other, and in general are nice people. Sure they are also forgetful and slow-witted, but they are peaceful so it’s a good trade off. I work at a cannabis dispensary, and never once have I had a mean or unruly customer. I used to work at a Big Box store, and I got screamed at by customers every single day. At the cannabis dispensary the clients are always so polite and laid back, it makes every shift a walk in the park. A few nights ago I was closing up and found a cardboard box behind the cannabis shop. Inside the box was a litter of kittens. To be honest, I just walked away and went home for the night. When I returned to the cannabis dispensary the following day the kittens were still there, and I could ignore them no longer. I started telling the patrons of the cannabis shop about the kittens around back, and how they needed homes. I offered anyone who took a kitten home with them a $50 gift card for the cannabis dispensary. Before noon, all eight of the baby kittens had been adopted by various customers of the cannabis shop. Here’s the best part – none of these people came inside to claim their cannabis shop gift card, they just took a kitten home to do the right thing. I love my customers!

 

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Using my bike to deliver weed on campus

While I prefer a cash gratuity, I will never turn down free cannabis! Fast forward four years, and I achieved my college degree, only to continue delivering cannabis on my bike

It feels like I have been riding a bike my whole life. As a child I rode my bike to school every day. After school I rode over to see my friends, or to explore the logging trails in the forest. It was a pretty small town, so I rode my bike to school all the way through high school graduation. When it was time to go to college I took the bus, and brought my bike with me. At this point I was 18 and had never owned or even driven a car. I thought this would be a detriment, but instead it helped me find a great part-time job. I made deliveries on campus for the local cannabis dispensary. It was a fairly large campus, with three dormitories, a host of campus apartments for faculty and staff, and all of the fraternity and sorority houses. All of these people smoked tons of cannabis, and I was never short on work. I preferred delivering cannabis to the housing units, because the faculty and staff members always tipped, while the students rarely offered a tip. The fraternity houses were always really cool about offering me a “tip” out of the cannabis I had just delivered. While I prefer a cash gratuity, I will never turn down free cannabis! Fast forward four years, and I achieved my college degree, only to continue delivering cannabis on my bike. I am no longer on campus, I am in a high-end part of the downtown area, where the cannabis customers all tip really well.

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I like to smoke marijuana and not drink

I really don’t prefer to drink. A lot of my friends still go out on the weekends and drink until 3:00 in the morning. They come to work Monday morning and they look like they’re still drunk from saturday. I spent a lot of time drinking when I was in college and one time I had alcohol poisoning. I passed out and I had to be taken to the hospital. They pumped my stomach and I found out that I had severe damage from drinking alcohol for 3 years straight. The doctor told me that I was going to end up with liver disease if I did not stop drinking. I was only 24 years old at that time and I decided to stop drinking alcohol for good. I still wanted to have something fun to do when everyone else was drinking, so I started smoking recreational marijuana. Recreational marijuana has been legal in the state for the past 8 years. I used a little bit of recreational marijuana in college, but now I like to smoke every single day. Marijuana makes me feel much more calm and relaxed. I don’t have any type of negative drug reactions with the other pills that I take. I think that marijuana also helps me be more social, which is a problem that I have had since I was young. As long as I can continue to get high, I don’t mind if everyone else around me is drinking until the cows come home. I would much rather be stoned than plastered.

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I thought the guy was just indecisive

There really aren’t a lot of products on the shelves of the marijuana dispensary.

We keep one item of stock on the shelf for each and every item that we have in the back.

We don’t keep 10 or 12 or 20 of the items out front, because that can lead to problems with fast and stealing. I have several employees and they all know to watch out for potential thieves in the marijuana dispensary. I also have a security guard at the front door and another security guard walking around inside of the marijuana shop at all times. One of my girls was talking to a new patient. I thought the guy was indecisive, because he couldn’t figure out what he wanted to get. He asked the budtender about several different items. The security officer came over to the desk where I was sitting and he pulled me to the side. He told me to check the security cameras from the last 5 minutes because he believed that one of the customers had stolen a couple of items. The customer turned out to be the indecisive guy at the counter and the security footage showed him putting several items into his jacket. One security officer stood by the door while the other guy politely escorted the gentleman to the back of the store. We asked him to empty his pockets or we were going to call the police. He had more than $200 inside of his jacket, but I chose to ban him from the store instead of calling the police.

 

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The cannabis dispensary smelled like marijuana.

Even though I was a user of marijuana products, I didn’t like the smell of marijuana.

It was such an odd smell that it burned my nose. My husband bought one product that smelled overly sweet, and I didn’t like that either. When I walked into the cannabis dispensary, it smelled like marijuana. The smell put me off, and I almost walked right back out. My husband told me he only wanted to be in the cannabis dispensary for ten minutes, but if I wanted to go to the car, it was okay. I took his hand and stuck close to him as we looked in the different display cases. I saw a pretty item that reminded me of a vase my grandmother once had. I asked if I could look at it. She told me it was a marijuana pipe. I smiled and looked at my husband. He shrugged in a way that said buy it if you want it. Fifteen minutes later, we were walking out of the cannabis dispensary with my fancy water pipe and my husband bought a regular marijuana pipe. Our daughter gave him some marijuana products for Father’s Day one year, and he put it in the safe away from the grandkids. It had been thirty years since he used marijuana products, and since it was now legal, he was going to try what she bought him. It’s funny how now that we’re sixty, we no longer care if people like what we are doing. I have a feeling we’ll be going to the cannabis dispensary more often.

 

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I didn’t bring enough money to the marijuana dispensary.

I deliberately left my purse at home when I went to the marijuana dispensary with my sister. I didn’t want to spend any money on marijuana products I didn’t need. I brought $25 with me and refused to buy anything more expensive. My husband asked me to bring a battery home for his vape pen, but it was more money than I planned on spending. I wasn’t sure what battery he needed, so I invited him to go along. When I got to the marijuana dispensary, the higher prices surprised me. Everything was more expensive than the medical marijuana products I was used to buying. I knew everything was getting more expensive, but this was ridiculous. I asked why the prices went up so high. The young woman told me there were higher taxes on recreational marijuana. I told her I had a medical marijuana ID card. She said that with the medical marijuana ID card, the items I could buy were limited, and I got a 30% percent discount every day. My sister thought this was unfair, but she was still shopping. I appreciated the young girl telling me the marijuana dispensary still sold items less expensive to medical marijuana user, but these prices were still overpriced. I did find the battery my husband wanted, and I bought it. With the 30% discount, it was doable, but I wished I didn’t bring enough money to buy anything else at the marijuana dispensary. The marijuana dispensary had some sweet displays where I was tempted to forget the battery and purchase and something, but I couldn’t justify the price.

 

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The payroll supplier keeps watch of everything for us

It’s hard to keep track of everything that is necessary to worry about when you open up a cannabis dispensary! I had plenty of cash & a lot of investors when I decided to use some of my songs company cash to open a cannabis dispensary.

Unfortunately, I did not really know a lot about how to run the business. I had to get a company manager to talk me through the entire process, then there were a lot of things that I did not anticipate & cash kept going out the door, and when it came time to hire a payroll supplier for the cannabis dispensary, I told that company manager that it was not necessary to have an lavish cannabis dispensary payroll supplier to pay their employees. I had been paying employees for a long time & I was cheerful to write checks each & every week. It took about 6 months before I had a whole week of mistakes & that made me realize I had to hire a professional payroll & accounting supplier to help with the cannabis dispensary. The payroll supplier handles everything that has to do with the employees & it really makes my life a lot easier. They deduct for all of the insurances & even send out the necessary tax forms at the start of the year. I don’t have to do anything at all except approve the invoice that includes all of the amounts for the check for the employees. I was absolutely spending about 6 hours a week trying to get the payroll done & now it takes me 6 minutes.

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