I love my job! I work with the most fun and boisterous group of people, all of whom are remarkably well educated, too.
When people think about working in a cannabis dispensary, most of them assume the staff is high all the time.
This is absolutely not true, and no smoking is allowed while anyone is on shift. After hours, and on our days off, all of us get stoned constantly, but never at work. We take our jobs seriously, and know that impairing our judgment with cannabis could lead to us giving bad advice to the customers. Since cannabis legalization went through, our shop has been incredibly busy. Another reason everyone has to stay clear headed is the sheer volume of cannabis we sell, and of course the money we make. There is a guard at the front door who checks everyone’s ID before they can enter the cannabis dispensary. What people don’t know is that there is a second guard in the back room, and that guy has a gun. Federal laws are very weird, so we can’t take credit or debit cards for cannabis sales; it has to be straight cash. This means that some days, after a big weekend, we will have tens of thousands of dollars of cash in the cannabis dispensary. With that much cash on hand, our cannabis dispensary is a prime target to get robbed at some point. There is always an armed guard in the back room of the cannabis dispensary, guarding the money, and on weekends there are two armed guards.