Cool map, I'd speed it up a bit though
FYI, the time displays are a bit off. The time box seems correct. The time slider is off. The animation goes beyond the last time. Up to you if the slider stops in the middle, or goes to 100% which becomes larger as the day progresses
> I'd speed it up a bit though
Clearly not partaking in 420 ;-)
How did you get access to the data?
Point of sale APIs.
Walk-in sales indicate these stores are everywhere. It's kind of scary to be honest.
There are more liquor stores than weed stores near me. We've decided as a society that it’s OK to have liquor stores all over the place. It’s wild to me to fret over the far fewer numbers of dispensaries.
Yeah, weed is probably bad for you, given enough of it. It turns out there's no safe dose of alcohol, and no one’s figured out where weed’s harm eventually kicks in, so why worry about its societal effects which we know are vastly lesser?
I drink beer and don't use weed. All of the above is from someone who couldn’t care less about marijuana for themselves.
There seems to be a high density of marijuana storefronts in my city.
I'm wondering who, angry and scared about the state of society, is checking out, rather than speaking out.
The irony is my hippie uncle hates how legalization took away a lot of the culture surrounding weed in terms of bonding over the illegally and cooperatively hiding each others "bad habits."
I think those circles are still out there. Making something popular will naturally dilute it and remove some of its original appeal. Eternal September, etc.
On the other hand, giving the population an alternative to alcohol is a good thing, especially when it can have positive medicinal effects in some situations.
What is the scary part?
It's high potency THC with things like live resin to get you even higher. It's marketed casually like alcohol. Teens and new adults casually getting into this stuff will have issues especially if they are predisposed to a variety of mental issues. The same is true for people who are depressed and use alcohol to "chill out", it's never ends well. We as a society don't have any clue when we roll out these "new features" on every corner. Same with anything, same with video games, same with social media. Your seven year old is addicted to tiktok, imagine that. Your 15 year old can't turn the fucking video games off. Your 25 year old can't put Instagram down. I'm not even talking about the whole class of drug addicts. Now imagine being addicted to all fucking 5 of those things? Then you get the 30 year old in therapy.
I would personally limit the number of purchases like we do Pseudoephedrine, and if you need more, get a medical prescription. We'll probably realize this in about 20 years, like we are finally realizing about social media. Social media needs to be 18+, like porn sites. Took us 20 years, but many places are doing it. We never have a serious discussion about anything when we roll it out. Alcohol on every corner and supermarket was one of the stupidest things we ever did.
Concentrates make up a small percentage of total sales as you can see on the category chart. A certain number of consumers will have trouble regulating consumption, but that is true with many things like alcohol, nicotine, cheeseburgers. I don't think going back to the prohibition era of alcohol is quite the solution.
I think of it as an equivalent to drinking alcohol. If someone is "waking and baking" every day then they have a substance abuse problem just as if they were waking up and driving half a bottle of scotch.
> We don't have a clue as a society yet.
Yes we do. Drugs are not new. We're tired of prohibition and the needless human suffering it has bought about. It has not and will never work. The answer is education and mental health services. Not treating the public like children.
I won't fight you on this. I just need a few people here to testify that, no, we actually don't have a fucking clue. I cannot tell you why all the kids are addicted to every digital thing imaginable, other than, it's highly accessible and marketed like-so. What extra education and social services is going to stop it? Now you want to introduce another substance alongside Alcohol on every corner. We literally need limitations. Someone else get my back here.
I vape dude, my "peers" are teenagers. I'm an adult, and every kid I see vapes. Now I actually regret picking this stupid username because I never actually stopped to think that HN has young people here. Now that I think about it, I had a convo with some college kid inquiring about Nicotine patches from me on Discord because I kinda mentioned I was trying to stop vaping lol. What the hell is going on out there? They are literally into every bad thing, and we just kinda go like "well the adults need it 24/7 so no rules".
When you mix alcohol and thc, it's a full drug cocktail. It takes nothing but a brisk 5 minute walk to get both in a major city.
Edit:
Deliberately enough, this is on the frontpage of CNN today:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/20/health/marijuana-dementia-wel...
> I cannot tell you why all the kids are addicted to every digital thing imaginable
"They speak of my drinking but not of my thirst"
I think it's important to have safeguards around substances like alcohol and THC, age restrictions, education, etc. But we also should think about why people turn to these things. If kids are vaping and spending hours scrolling on social media, maybe we should assess what can be done to bring their attention away from those things and towards activities, third spaces, and offer non-substance ways to alleviate stress and anxiety. Some of these things are available, but perhaps not in the ratio required to make a dent in the substance/media usage.
At 7:40 today (Sunday) there was a line outside the dispensary in my town, presumably waiting for it to open. People are really in love with it.
ok grampa
Post substantially, please
Cool analysis ... but 420 has been made so cringe now ...
Could you elaborate on what you mean?
Cannabis?? Such a racy controversial topic... I don't know if I can talk about... Marry wanna... the debble's lettuce