We've moved from the theme of 'whoa new york' to 'moving there' (will get there again) to 'dating in ny'. This is the 'shit its a diverse place' series for a couple of posts now. This post will be short because it's just a quick observation of how things in NYC are different from here in Seattle.
SK and the boys were telling me how there's a bunch of 'unlicensed' weed shops in the city. As in, they open up, sell a tonne of grass for a few weeks to a few months, the city officials find out and raid the place, it shuts down. They never had a license to run the place. Couple of weeks down the line, they open at a new location. This time they carry shrooms too. Maybe. They're still unlicensed, and will run shop until they're caught.
People sell 'em from 'food trucks' too apparently, all unlicensed, and easier to run. If they're switching around locations every few days, they're always ahead of the inspectors. You can't have too many people running around keeping tabs on who is selling weed and where. As long as nobody reports -- the tourists don't have a clue and the locals have better things to do -- the operation keeps running. What a wild world of cat-and-mouse!
It's such a wild concept because here in Seattle weed shops are few and far-in-between. They're massively regulated, as is everything else, and even the thought of unlicensed stores doing that is hard to conjure up. That sorta' stuff just...doesn't happen here.
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