No Green For The Green

[Cubo de Sangre]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...555caaeb8dc_story.html?utm_term=.7233608dfc33

Hawaii said Tuesday that it aims to be the first state to have marijuana sales handled without cash, saying it wanted to avoid robberies and other crimes targeting dispensaries.

All of Hawaii’s eight licensed dispensaries have agreed to go cashless by Oct. 1, the governor’s office said. The dispensaries will ask patients to use a debit payment app to buy their pot instead of cash. The app is already an option for marijuana transactions in six states, including California and Colorado.

Iris Ikeda, the state’s financial institutions commissioner, told reporters at a news conference that state officials haven’t discussed whether people wanting to pay in cash will be turned away from dispensaries.

Many marijuana businesses use cash because banks fear pot money could expose them to legal trouble from the U.S. government, which regulates banking and still bans marijuana.


The debit app called CanPay uses a Colorado-based credit union to facilitate transactions. The Hawaii dispensaries will set up accounts with the credit union, called Safe Harbor Private Banking.

Under the cashless system, customers use their checking accounts to pay CanPay, which sends the payment to Safe Harbor.

While it's nice to give dispensaries some protection from robberies, this exposes the customer to potential legal problems. Nothing like leaving a short and direct paper-trail when breaking the law. Just more encouragement to continue shopping on the black market. Time for federal legalization.

 

[spin]

Legal on private property , illegal on public property

 

[VivaRevolution]

Gotta love credit unions.

 

[MadSquabbles500]

Humans need to find better ways of being productive and living a good life besides inhaling, or ingesting something. Like go learn to play an instrument, or post on internet forums.

 

[tonni]

Humans need to find better ways of being productive and living a good life besides inhaling, or ingesting something. Like go learn to play an instrument, or post on internet forums.

you can do all those things separately. you could combine them. there's more uses to cannabis than being productive or 'living a good life', whatever that means.

 

[hillelslovak87]

Humans need to find better ways of being productive and living a good life besides inhaling, or ingesting something. Like go learn to play an instrument, or post on internet forums.

Smoking a joint and playing an instrument is how literally every single rockstar in history started.

 

[M3t4tr0n]

When will Kones alt come in to vote "no"?