Back in college we would hang out in the dorm room, doing bong rips, and talking about our dream jobs.
- At the top of the list was owning a cannabis shop.
I loved to daydream about spending my career helping people get high. Fast forward twenty years, and that dream has finally become a wonderful reality. A few of my old college chums and I invested in a new cannabis dispensary. Now I get to spend my days behind the counter, weighing out grams of high-octane cannabis and helping people get legal medical marijuana. It really is a dream come true! It’s funny how your life experiences can change how you see something like marijuana. It used to be a hobby, something fun to do with my pals, but now cannabis is my life and my career. The big question I get asked is “how does owning a cannabis dispensary influence how you get high?” Well, the biggest thing that has changed is that I rarely smoke cannabis during the daytime anymore. I used to start smoking marijuana as soon as I woke up, but no longer! When I get up I have some coffee and go straight to the cannabis dispensary to open for the day. Being stoned at work is never a good thing, and when the manager of a cannabis dispensary is stoned on the job it makes the whole business look bad. We are cannabis professionals, not a group of stoners, so we need to act appropriately. Once I am done working for the day, then it’s time to start smoking cannabis.