Cashless for Cannabis?

Cash and cannabis have long gone hand in hand. The federal government, with its insistence that marijuana is a schedule one controlled substance, makes federally insured banks and credit cards nervous about dealing with cannabis companies. But, Hawaii is looking to change that. By October 1, buyers at Hawaii’s dispensaries have the option to pay with a debit payment app called CanPay instead of using paper bills and coins. CanPay is also available at many mainland dispensaries including Harborside in California.

According to the Washington Post,

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.

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Anon Forrest
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Anon Forrest
6 years ago

I wonder if USPostal money orders will fulfill the “cashless” definition?

Dan Fuller
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Dan Fuller
6 years ago
Reply to  Anon Forrest

I rather doubt it, since the Post Office is Federal & all & “Uncle Jeff” doesn’t like Cannabis!!!

Anon Forrest
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Anon Forrest
6 years ago
Reply to  Dan Fuller

I dunno about that. The “pay to” and “pay from” lines are blank.

AnonymousHumboldtian
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AnonymousHumboldtian
6 years ago
Reply to  Dan Fuller

Money orders are used by dispensaries all the time. They don’t have any names attached to them.

Dan Fuller
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Dan Fuller
6 years ago

Good to know if I ever have to actually BUY some!!!

Trillium Hummingbird
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Trillium Hummingbird
6 years ago
Reply to  Dan Fuller

AND you may all feel safe and shit, laundering your money through the Federal Money Laundry also known as the post office, but your names are collected and EVERY transaction is FILMED.

I know you all think $3000/day, and Uncle Sugar allows this bastard program, now, but wait for the federal marshall… Enjoy!

gunther
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gunther
6 years ago

I guess you could abide by Federal law….or change it. Laws get changed all the time.

Dan Fuller
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Dan Fuller
6 years ago
Reply to  gunther

An excellent suggestion but not likely to happen while Sessions & Trump are still in office!!!

thebigdeal
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thebigdeal
6 years ago
Reply to  Dan Fuller

True . At least another 7.5 years because Trump will win the reelection. Most of America like the policies. Lets get that wall built. And we will not take any shit from rocket man

Dan Fuller
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Dan Fuller
6 years ago
Reply to  thebigdeal

Trump will be lucky to not be impeached by the time the next presidential election comes around!!!

Butthead
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6 years ago
Reply to  Dan Fuller

Trump is the only man brave enough not to be PC correct just to win an election, for that alone we owe him our support, He is not afraid to state he believes in God and has faith in Jesus to get the job done. You honestly think H.R.C. would care about you above her own pocketbook ?

Money for nothing and the trips are free!!
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Money for nothing and the trips are free!!
6 years ago
Reply to  Butthead

Neither Trump’s family nor his children have never stated they believed in a God or god. His god is in his wallet. He goes to church with his wife because it is political correct. The last Presidents who professed believing in a god was Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. After their presidential terms none of the following Presidents attended church. I researched Trump and his father’s family and neither put a foot inside a church or professed their faith……….ever…….. short of a wedding. And only Trump would use Republican donated money to pay for his attorneys. Same can be said for his fake charities and university. The money always belongs to someone else. And he spends out hard paid taxes to pay for his room and board in Florida. And he spent American worker tax dollars for his family’s travel to places around the world. Especially his daughter and son. No President has ever done this. The guy is a con man.

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
6 years ago
Reply to  Butthead

Perfect user name synergy on this one.

Bob
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Bob
6 years ago
Reply to  Butthead

Well said.

Shaka
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Shaka
6 years ago

Good timing Kym I have been thinking ALOHA all day mahalo for this info….

Semper Fi
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Semper Fi
6 years ago

Jesus Chriminy Christ, now you need a pocket telephone and a fucking ap to buy some herb?

You pocket telephone thumb monkies are fucking ridiculous.

Fucking idiots and their pocket telephones.

Pocket-pinball Oohrah
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Pocket-pinball Oohrah
6 years ago
Reply to  Semper Fi

HaHa. That made me feel young again. Angry much? There is an app for that.

Steve
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Steve
6 years ago
Reply to  Semper Fi

There was no reason what so ever to bring Chriminy into the conversation that is just over reacting… Don’t buy weed in Hawaii… boycott their weed…

Pocket-pinball Oohrah
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Pocket-pinball Oohrah
6 years ago
Reply to  Steve

Bravo~ If I had a wooden nickel for every time Chriminy was needlessly brought into a conversation I would have enough to get a stagecoach pass out of this ramshackle town! Thanks for the chuckle, Steve. I am thinking Semper might be totally overwhelmed when he learns he can’t drive to the Islands in the Ol’ Studebaker!

Trillium Hummingbird
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Trillium Hummingbird
6 years ago
Reply to  Steve

UH, Steve? Who the fuck do you think grows the weed in Hawaii?

Honeydew Bridge C.H.U.M.P.
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Honeydew Bridge C.H.U.M.P.
6 years ago
Reply to  Semper Fi

You shouldn’t be smoking dope to begin with.
Real men don’t have long hair, smoke or grow dope, go to ROTR, or know anyone that does.
Lift weights, do push ups & sit ups, watch Clint Eastwood, and help run dope growers out of town.

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
6 years ago

Jesus had long hair, and didn’t even lift bro.

Wade Harris is shit
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6 years ago
Reply to  Jaekelopterus

You got to be lifted to walk on water though..bet Jesus had a six pack ….of fog cutter

Freedom Club
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Freedom Club
6 years ago

A real man doesn’t worry about what other men do in their private life that has little to no effect on them.

Miguel
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Miguel
6 years ago

Your routine is really getting old chump.

No locals? Really?
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No locals? Really?
6 years ago
Reply to  Miguel

Probably he is a child molester. If he’s not he won’t comment any more?

♡
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6 years ago

Just another angry christian who is secretly jealous of all the fun we freaks have!!

THC
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THC
6 years ago

I’m surprised they don’t just use their EBT cards.

http://kdvr.com/2015/02/04/welfare-cash-paying-for-marijuana-a-reality-in-colorado/

After all Hawaiians do receive the most welfare benefits of all the other states.

http://www.hawaiireporter.com/it-pays-not-to-work-hawaiian-residents-receive-highest-welfare-benefits-in-us

Yuh
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Yuh
6 years ago
Reply to  THC

After we stole their island literally with a bomb pointed at the queens home with her inside.
Then we destroyed the land with tons of sugar plantations, forcing the hawaiians to work there or die.
Then the sugar companies pulled out leaving no economy besides tourism after destroying the land and kniwledge of the old culture of the islands.
So wtf are they supposed to do?
If you dont like it then support the hawaian seccession movement and help them secede from the US. Theyre ready!!!
Oh and fyi Isreal receives the most US federal money, look it up so you can see just how much that is, more than hawaiians get if you added up 200 years of payments.

littlefish
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littlefish
6 years ago
Reply to  Yuh

BAM! Good one.

Just sayin
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Just sayin
6 years ago
Reply to  Yuh

Sugar plantation were there already. King K decreed in the 18th Century to assimilate and adopt the Western Culture. then made the Hawaiian Flag with English Flare. Stop trying to have history follow a false narrative you make up in your head.

THC
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THC
6 years ago
Reply to  Yuh

Yes they came to do good and did very well indeed. I’m no fan of Isreal and their 38 billion aid package either.

curlybill
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curlybill
6 years ago

You should be able to transfer money on Paypal, all you need is a email address.

Lone ranger
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Lone ranger
6 years ago

Weed equals cashless, that about sums up the industry

sickofem
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sickofem
6 years ago

this is awesome, clearly designed to put a stop to illegal behaviour, make them pay taxes like everyone else ,
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Perspective
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Perspective
6 years ago

This is bullshit. Nothing wrong with cash. Debit cards and banks suck anyway.

fuckwalterwhite.com
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fuckwalterwhite.com
6 years ago

“Visa Green: for stoners without bank accounts”

Ben Round
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Ben Round
6 years ago

This sounds like tracking of cannabis buyers. Just more ways to make yourselves vulnerable in an uncertain world/country.
Hawai’i was the first state to pass medical marijuana. Yet they (their state legislature) have only just decided on a system of growing and distributing it, which is very limited. Dispensaries are only now opening, and as such, ‘going cashless’ is not a change, but even more burdensome regulation on a fledgling industry in the (would-be) island nation.

BobtheBorderwallbuilder
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BobtheBorderwallbuilder
6 years ago

Total joke! Get ready to spend your,life in a fema camp.
Never trust the government or any of their footsoldiers.
Hawaiians come to garberville plenty for the greenrush, make,cash and go home. From the nursery behind renner to the hills deep off the grid.
Besides the maui waui grows better in the hills with less humidity.
They are prone to mold and funguses with their uncontrollable humidity.
Id,rather hear about their testing and what they are testing for!
And surely someone has the cash to have a marlboro cigarette tested, id love to know if it even comes anywhere near passing any test our phony lawmakers are imposing on cannabis.