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A pharmacy that upgraded the mood lighting and renamed the pharmacist a budtender.
means A place licensed to dispense medicines or drugs directly to the public, now most familiar as the storefront where legal cannabis is sold.
from From Latin 'dispensare,' meaning to weigh out or distribute, itself built from 'pendere,' to weigh or pay. The word entered English in the 1700s for institutions that doled out medicine to the needy — the sense of careful, measured distribution has never really left it, even as the goods behind the counter changed.
- origin word
- from dispense, originally meant charity clinics for the poor
- security budget
- often rivals banks due to cash-only federal banking limits
- menu naming
- strain names are marketing, not actual genetic lineage
- legal paradox
- state-legal, federally illegal, taxed heavily by both