Weekly book club at the cannabis dispensary

The book club meetings used to be hosted by Jenny, who to put it gently was a fussy old biddy, butJenny was great, and easily enjoyed books, but the meetings just weren’t much fun.

After a few months the attendance started to decline.

My associate and I started with fifteen women in the book club, but once our numbers dwindled to seven of us, I realized my buddy and I had to make a change. I told Jenny that I wanted to take over the meetings. She was salty about it, but finally agreed. Then I told her my plan was to hold the meetings in the smokers lounge at the local cannabis dispensary, and she was aghast! Jenny is an old woman, set in her ways, and she has spent her whole life thinking cannabis was dangerous. Everyone else in the book club liked the idea, so the following month my buddy and I held our first meeting at the cannabis dispensary. There was a little confusion at first, because some members are older and can’t be around secondhand cannabis smoke because it affects their breathing. They were relieved to find that there was no secondhand cannabis smoke, because the only products allowed in the lounge are smokeless. For the first couple of meetings I bought cannabis edibles for most people, just to demystify the situation and make them feel more comfortable. No one is required to use cannabis products for the book club, of course, it’s 100% optional for most people. I am supremely stoned for every meeting, mostly due to the high-octane cannabis drinks I like to sip while in the meeting.

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Life on the cannabis farm

After my girlfriend kicked me out, I stayed on a friend’s couch for a few weeks.

It was supposed to be a few days, but time got away from me.

I needed a permanent place to stay, and I also needed to find a better job. Life was not good at that particular moment, but then we got thrown a lifeline by an old high school chum named Zeke! Zeke had been the guy who sold me marijuana back in the day, and my buddy and I were regularly friendly. Zeke heard through the grapevine about my extreme state of affairs, and made me an offer – come stay with him and work on his marijuana farm as a hired hand. He had almost an acre of cannabis plants, far more than he could handle on his own. I would get free room and board, free cannabis, and a few bucks every once in a while. It was not a great deal for my long-term future, however I went for it anyway, then quickly I came to discover that I easily liked the simplicity of being a cannabis farmer. Tending to the earth, making sure the marijuana plants grew to their full extent, and then engaging in a harvest. It was a lifestyle I had never experienced before, and I enjoyed it! I will admit that being able to smoke cannabis whenever I wanted made it all the sweeter. Zeke and I have become close friends, and he has even started teaching me some of the more advanced techniques for marijuana cultivation. One afternoon I might start a cannabis farm of my own.

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A great place to hang out and use smokeless cannabis products

When I was young, and lived in a small town, the ice cream shop was the best place to hang out.

It was a locally owned place, an off-brand Dairy Queen, where you could get all manner of sweet treats.

There were no tables or booths in this shop, just counters and stools. Everyone liked to hang around, eating sweets and talking, so it was the main spot for all teens and kids. Forty years later, I find myself thinking about the old ice cream shop quite a bit, because I think it can teach me something about my own business. I run the local cannabis dispensary, however I feel that it would benefit by giving it the same vibe as the old ice cream shop. The old managers wanted a high turnover rate, so he discouraged people from hanging around the cannabis dispensary, however I am taking the opposite approach. My belief is that if people are comfortable and having fun they will stay longer, and eventually they will spend more money on cannabis products.We can’t have a smokers lounge, because it’s illegal to smoke cannabis or tobacco inside a business. What we can offer is a hang-out lounge, where people can use smokeless cannabis products, or just chill out and talk. There is no pressure to buy or use extra cannabis products, my goal is to offer a fun and great spot for people to chill for a while. I will have to wait a few weeks to find out if my new approach generates more sales for the cannabis dispensary.

 

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The new bouncer for the cannabis dispensary

For a few weeks our store has been experiencing some troubles with a certain group of customers.

This is uncharted territory for all of us who work here.

In general, a cannabis dispensary is a really chill place to work, for the employees and the customers alike.We deal mostly with potheads, who are a relaxed group of people. We started having these school kids coming into the store, drunk out of their minds, and they would cause a scene.We had a security guard, although he quit because these young people were giving him too much grief. My manager made a bold move, and hired an ex-con named Stan to be the up-to-date cannabis dispensary security guard. Stan made an immediate difference, and suddenly the cannabis dispensary is a fun place to work again. Stan works the front door, like the bouncer at a club, and checks the IDs and cannabis cards for most people who want to come inside. He is so intimidating to look at that nobody wants to mess around and get on his bad side, so all those problem customers found another cannabis dispensary to bother. While he may look scary, Stan is as sweet as honey pie, and has become the most popular guy at the cannabis dispensary. Since Stan is still on parole, he cannot truly indulge in marijuana himself, although he doesn’t seem to mind, however once I asked Stan what he went to jail for, and with a sheepish grin he disclosed it was for robbing a cannabis dealer. I hope the bosses don’t find out!

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The fights against legalized cannabis are ridiculous

For several years I had an ongoing debate with my father about the legality of marijuana, but he was strongly against it, and agreed that potheads should be locked in jail.

  • He had several reasons for his beliefs, none of which made any sense to me at all, first of all, my dad is a deeply religious guy.

He was born and raised in the Catholic church, which left a permanent stain on his soul. Seriously, you have to admit that the Church is responsible for more evil in the world than anything else. Still, the religious condemnation of cannabis makes little sense to me, because it comes from a plant. If you believe in God, and that God created all life on Earth, that means you believe God created the marijuana plant. If God created the marijuana plants, how can it be wrong, immoral, or sinful? You might as well say that potatoes are sinful! Beyond that fight, what about all the medicinal properties of the cannabis plant, how can those be dismissed? Cannabis is a powerful plant that can help a lot of people lead better, more fulfilling lives. Finally, last but not least, I asked my dad to point out the passage in the Bible that says cannabis is wrong. He could not do that, of course, because marijuana is not mentioned anywhere in the Bible. The people who run the church, and run it as a company might I add, have decreed cannabis is being immoral, but they made it up, because it was never written in the Bible.

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