New York is the new Amsterdam.
Or at least that’s how it seemed during a visit this week to the Upper West Side’s Barber Shop Museum, a kicky place for a cut, with vintage straight razors on the walls and a hot towel warmer that dates from 1900.
It’s also a place where customers can get high as a kite, thanks to all the primo weed on display in a glass case and an apparent loophole that lets the shop “sell” marijuana, despite retail pot sales not yet being legal.
“We don’t sell weed here,” Shaheem Owens, the joint’s in-house “budtender,” told The Post with a straight face. “We sell digital art. Then we give you the cannabis as a present after you purchase the art.”
The “gifting” angle for skirting New York law has been a boon for the Barber Shop Museum and other gray-area dispensaries in the city, as well as a welcome new option for desperate potheads who just want to buy a bag without getting hassled.
All while lawmakers hash out how to fully legalize recreational sales of cannabis.
READ FULL ARTICLE: https://nypost.com/2022/02/04/shops-selling-giving-away-pot-before-its-legal-in-nyc/
”THATS UNTIL THEY TAX THE SHIT OUT OF IT SMH. LEMMIE KNOW WHAT YOU THINK OF THIS.
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