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Marijuana is given as a “free gift” for buying something small and overpriced, like a sticker. Marijuana itself isn’t illegal, but the selling of it is.
Kind of like during early prohibition when bars would gift alcohol if you bought a more-expensive lunch.
New York finally got a real coffee shop.
With love from Amsterdam >

From Amsterdam to New Amsterdam. You love to see it. 🥲 >

As someone who moved from the first to the second, it's been a while :) >

I can’t imagine leaving the NL to live in the US. It’s like the opposite of my dream. Haha.
(edit:) Like, let me exchange my holiday allowance and amazing metro for a dirty subway, crazy hustle culture and expensive healthcare. No gracias. >

Oh it seemed like a good idea at the time......
No regrets though. Finally got a job I love, a beautiful kid and a women who loves me and I love her. Things I never found in NL. Even though I am not originally from NL it will always be "home" to me and I do hope one day to return. >

Now federally decriminalize it and remove it from drug testing.  Even Canada considers it a breach of personal privacy. >


remove it from drug testing.

so glad california did this. >

My company stopped testing for it over 2 years ago. They got tired of over 70% of applicants failing. >

What’s ridiculous is that my company tests for hiring but then never again.  If you did a blanket test today of the 150 employees on the condition a failed test resulted in termination the company would be completely inoperable.
We have never had a problem with marijuana consumption or a high person on site.  We have had on-site alcohol consumption and DWI in company vehicles, though.
Drug testing doesn’t prevent that.  I’m not saying drug testing is pointless (it kind of is) but testing for marijuana is completely pointless by todays standards. >

I think it’s insurance for a lot of these companies in my legal state.
Anyways it feels like being a gay man in the military. They openly discuss their love of alcohol but I have to nod and not dare mention having a puff after work. It doesn’t help that I work for a traditionally conservative field, I had to pass a test to get hired but literally had the bosses talking about whiskey after a long day during the interview.
Fucking America, liberal legal state or not this country is run by old school conservatives. >

Price. Sticker shops aren't paying the high taxes a legal place has too.
Im in Buffalo and fully expect to see sticker stores being targeted when they start opening the legal dispensaries here.  The police in outlying suburbs (Cheektowaga) have already raided a sticker store/shut it down, so there is precedent. >

What is a sticker store?