Debit/Credit cards no longer usable in dispensaries.....what the heck?

Cash in Colorado, and Michigan

Interesting...I just went to the dispensary yesterday and I normally swipe my debit card there, but they had signs up saying the debit system was down and cash only. Will keep an eye out to see if it continues.

I personally don't mind the $3.50 charge to use debit card at the dispensary because my bank refunds 100% of ATM fees worldwide, and I get a kick out of seeing hundreds of dollars worth of fees returned to my accounts every year.

FYI, dispensaries will never be allowed to process actual credit card transactions until marijuana is federally legalized and the banks allow them to.

Interesting...I just went to the dispensary yesterday and I normally swipe my debit card there, but they had signs up saying the debit system was down and cash only. Will keep an eye out to see if it continues.

I personally don't mind the $3.50 charge to use debit card at the dispensary because my bank refunds 100% of ATM fees worldwide, and I get a kick out of seeing hundreds of dollars worth of fees returned to my accounts every year.

FYI, dispensaries will never be allowed to process actual credit card transactions until marijuana is federally legalized and the banks allow them to.

I always pay cash when I go to the dispensary, because I don't want to pay the $3.50 charge to use a card, but when I went yesterday they had signs at the front door and at every ordering station saying they could no longer take debit cards, and I believe credit cards have been not usable for awhile.


I asked the owner if it was just Purlife, and he said no, that it was industry wide. I told him that I thought it was a lame ploy, and spoke volumes. He agreed.


Now, why do you think it might be that TPTB of credit card companies and banks would want to tamper with access to cannabis....hmmmm?


Could it be because it is an aide in dealing with the physical and emotional issues we most of us have going on?....positions that mostly TPTB have thrust us into, btw.

Could it be because we're more using the flower, rather than the big pharma "crop" shoved in our faces?

Could it be because when we utilize the flower responsibly, we're less out of their grip?


Could it be?.....:billlaugh:


But is this just New Mexico, or is it the same in dispensaries across the country?

It's been cash in Oklahoma since medicinal became legal.

it's inevitable, because it's against international law not tolerated anywhere but in the west. and the west is no longer funding our own debt load, the east has the gold. and look at russia busting britney grinder for weed oil. is unacceptable over there.

pretty sure trudope only legalized it to get the no knock and warrant-less searches into the marijuana act to take down organized crime who was still the supplier to the dispensaries anyway.

in parliament when he was told this, he said it was required because 'it was a means to an end'. you can read it on the website for canadian parliament.

So, I suppose the regs on CC/Debit cards are both State and Federally sensitive.

I can understand why given the Federal restrictions, but why debit cards? It's the same as cash, and is just a convenience to use one, so you don't have to go to the bank.


It probably makes no sense to me, because there is no sense to be had about it....:lmfao:

because the banks report your spending

Debit cards still use systems that are federally regulated. Banks will refuse it because they will get fucked by the feds.

Oregon vacation?

To be honest the banks are doing you a favor.

No record of you buying an illegal substance is good for you.

But in reality the banks probably got tired of the federal government asking for users bank records to see if they had bought some. Wasting the banks time.

Can't have a record if they simply block all purchases. Now the feds won't ask because they know there's no record to be had.

Cash in Colorado, and Michigan

I used my debit card three months ago at Maggies Farm in CO for recreational (organic) "flower" - so if it that is true, it just happened recently

I typically use cash, and only buy it, between crops ... but the prices have gone up and I needed to use my card because I didn't bring enough cash to cover the insane taxes

I always pay cash when I go to the dispensary, because I don't want to pay the $3.50 charge to use a card, but when I went yesterday they had signs at the front door and at every ordering station saying they could no longer take debit cards, and I believe credit cards have been not usable for awhile.


I asked the owner if it was just Purlife, and he said no, that it was industry wide. I told him that I thought it was a lame ploy, and spoke volumes. He agreed.


Now, why do you think it might be that TPTB of credit card companies and banks would want to tamper with access to cannabis....hmmmm?


Could it be because it is an aide in dealing with the physical and emotional issues we most of us have going on?....positions that mostly TPTB have thrust us into, btw.

Could it be because we're more using the flower, rather than the big pharma "crop" shoved in our faces?

Could it be because when we utilize the flower responsibly, we're less out of their grip?


Could it be?.....:billlaugh:


But is this just New Mexico, or is it the same in dispensaries across the country?

You must be getting old or are just retarded. I had to 1 star you. Dispensaries have ALWAYS been cash ONLY.

Not here in New Mexico....whaddya think I'm lyin'?....yuh goofball.