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Re:US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana by bobthepanda on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @04:15PM (#40215774)
Maybe this is a state by state thing? I have never observed this in WA.
Re:US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana by mikestew on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @04:17PM (#40215789)
I've heard Origins in Redmond does this, IIRC. But I believe that to be the exception, not the rule.
Re:US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana by olyjohn on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @03:42PM (#40228335)
Definitely seen it here in WA. It's just not very common.
Re:US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana by filoleg on Thursday May 02, 2024 @07:03PM (#40242315)
It feels like it is a state-by-state thing, yeah. I moved from WA to NYC just half a year ago, and I noticed it as well.

In WA, it felt like it was a pretty even 50/50 split (maybe with a heavier lean towards cash) between places accepting cash-only and those that accept debit as well (in addition to cash obviously). I dont remember any that accepted credit cards. All of this is a more recent situation though, as I still remember that just 6-8 years ago, pretty much every single place used to be cash-only. I also noticed some dispensaries experimenting with rather unconvential methods at different points in time too (e.g., Uncle Ike’s using a payment terminal for like a year that worked similarly to a regular debit card one, but it was using crypto as an intermediate medium on the backend to process the payment).

In NYC, it feels like everyone just accepts cards like usual, from grey-market ones to the legal ones.

However, I infinitely prefer the WA situation with cannabis over the NYC one for bajillion other reasons that are entirely unrelated to payment methods.