Virginia dispensaries now accept debit card payments

[underpants]

Last edited Tue May 30, 2023, 01:54 PM - Edit history (1)

I can’t find a story on how this came to be but it is.
I’ve always understood that even if it’s legalized by the state it’s still illegal federally so cash only.

I was at the dispensary in Carytown last month and saw that they did. This weekend I went to the one in Short Pump and sure enough they accept debit cards as well.

Those are two different named stores but they are coordinated at least via the ordering website.

[RandySF]

1. Don't do it.

[underpants]

6. 😆😆😎

[RandySF]

7. The debit card, I mean.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

2. There is one dispensary in AZ that I've been to that takes debit cards

Essentially they run the charge like an ATM rounded to the nearest $10 - If it's a $67 order, they hit you for $70, then give change, but they ALSO charge a $3 processing fee like non-bank ATMs do, so the $67 order comes out as $73 and you get $3 change.

[EYESORE 9001]

8. One dispensary in AZ, huh?

Guess it wasn’t the one I visited while there last month.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

9. I believe it was the Trulieve chain that DOES take plastic

I think Curaleaf does as well.
The main one I go to, Jars, does not take plastic, but they have ridiculous specials every week, so I'll deal with cash.

[EYESORE 9001]

11. I went to a Jars dispensary in PHX

I remember it was in the vicinity of Tempe and Peoria. Parked in back, got lost

[hippywife]

3. Not sure how that would be possible...

since it's still illegal federally. The dispensary my husband frequents has an ATM in their store since none of them can accept anything but cash due to federal law. We don't live in VA, and I could be wrong, but since banking regs are federal, I don't think states can authorize this individually. If they could, Colorado would have done this long ago.

[underpants]

5. I don't either.

These two places have ATMs but they charge $3. I just go to our bank or Wawa on the way. No idea how they can do this.

[hippywife]

10. Yeah, it's about the same amount at the place he goes.

Like $2.95 or something like that. We usually stop at the bank's drive-thru ATM before going, but if we forget, we just eat the charge.

[riversedge]

4. GERRIMANDERED Wisconsin Republicans kill legalized pot, family leave, Inc Mini wage.........

We are forced to live in the backwoods here!
Repugs EXpanded vouchers for private schools!!




Wisconsin Republicans kill legalized pot, stadium repairs

https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-budget-evers-republicans-marijuana-brewers-074c187f3dcf74b5fad99e2f65dde10a



By SCOTT BAUER May 2, 2023

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans voted Tuesday to kill proposals to legalize marijuana, pay for renovations at the Milwaukee Brewers’ stadium and create a paid family leave program, moves that Democratic Gov. Tony Evers derided as “foolish.”

The Legislature’s Republican-controlled budget committee killed more than 500 proposals from Evers with a single vote.

Evers had proposed tapping the state’s record-high $7 billion budget surplus to pay for a wide array of spending priorities that Republicans ultimately rejected.

“These aren’t fringe ideas, controversial concepts, or Republican or Democratic priorities—they’re about doing the right thing,” Evers said on Twitter after listing more than a dozen items being killed. “With a historic surplus comes historic responsibility, and today, when we can afford to do more, this vote is foolish and a wasted opportunity.”


..............


Evers proposals stripped from the budget on Tuesday include: a 10% income tax cut targeting middle- and low-income earners; $270 million to add more mental health providers in schools; and freezing enrollment in the state’s private school voucher program.


Other Evers proposals that Republicans have long opposed, and also killed, included accepting federal Medicaid expansion, raising the minimum wage, implementing automatic voter registration and repealing the state’s right to work law.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Same In Illinois

For the longest time, they didn't.
Had something to do with banks being interstate and pot still being federally illegal to conduct interstate business.
Not sure how they got around that, but they have been doing debit cards for over 2 years now

[underpants]

13. 👍