Speaking as someone who has actually legally purchased marijuana, let me explain how it actually works. I was initially thinking that a dispensary would be like a liquor store only with marijuana, but that is not the case at all:
-When you enter the shop you're in nothing but a lobby. There's a receptionist behind a glass wall who checks your ID and asks you recreational or medical. There are two rooms with doors labeled as such behind you. You're then asked to have seat, similar to a doctor's office.
-Once it's your turn, someone comes up and calls our name to let you in. By law the customer:staff ratio in the room can not be higher than 1:1.
-All product is kept behind the counter. You have to ask the clerk to hand you anything. No "free samples", no lines and lines of dimebags like liquor bottles.
It's far closer to a pharmacy than a liquor store (or what people think of as a head shop.)
That's funny. Nothing like most Dutch coffee shops.
- When you enter the shop, people are smoking everywhere.
- A guy behind a counter -- most of the times like half-stoned -- asks you what you want, and he can show you stuff. If you want to buy it, you have to show your ID.
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- Profit.
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