‘Most owners, though, were happy to show off their wares at retail, and it’s stuff that has little in common with the Cheech-and-Chong era of this drug. State-of-the-art pot is dense and loamy and comes in exotic shades of green and lavender — like shag carpeting made in a jungle. Most customers buy a gram or two at a time, and a lot of dispensaries offer loyalty cards — buy a lot, get some free. If smoking doesn’t appeal, there are lots of pot edibles, like cookies, fudge, butter, candy bars, muffins, coffee and ice cream.’
‘“What you hear about is a bunch of 18-year-olds who just want to get high,” she says. “You’ll see little of that in our establishment. What you’ll see instead is the 50-year-old woman who suffers from arthritis and this is her choice of pain medication.”’
both from ‘When Capitalism Meets Cannabis’ by DAVID SEGAL
Published: June 25, 2010
Honestly, I don’t care for pot, especially if I can only obtain it illegally. I’ll wait my time till it’s legal for recreational or spend a vacation in Amsterdam feasting on space cakes. The article also takes note on the attempt of most dispensaries to look professional and anti-counter-culture, which sparks up a giggle in me for the fact that pot is still somewhat considered counter-culture even with the term MEDICAL marijuana (and water pipe tobacco).
