Weed is a cash business.
Have you ever paid for a dimebag with your credit card? You never have, not even these days when there are legal dispensaries all around town.
Weed has always been a cash business, and probably always will be, and for the stupidest reasons! The voters of this country have voted to make marijuana legal in many states. Legal pot always generates a lot of revenue for the government, and tends to make the populace more relaxed. In other words, legal cannabis is a big win for everyone. Cannabis dispensaries create jobs, the fees and taxes bolster the local economy, and the clients are happy to have legal access to something that should have been legal all along. The problem comes with the federal government, which does not care about the voters or the people, and continues to list cannabis as an illegal drug. Even though you are shopping in a legal cannabis dispensary you are still technically breaking the federal laws. We all are. This is why cannabis remains a cash-only business, because dispensaries can’t take debit or credit cards as payment, or the federal government will shut them down. Because of this, there are successful cannabis dispensaries that have a hundred thousand dollars in cash on the premises. I am a certified, police trained, and military certified security guard, and my job is to provide armed protection for a local cannabis dispensary. Having so much cash on hand makes cannabis dispensaries a frequent target for robbery, so I always carry a gun with me.