5 Ways to Support Essential Cannabis Workers During Lockdown

Cannabis businesses have been deemed essential during the coronavirus pandemic. HashDash is committed to giving back to our respective cannabis communities - and here are five amazing ways that we plan on continuing to do so.

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, many cannabis business owners have shifted their approach in order to adapt. It is essential that they keep employees safe while providing customers with cannabis medicine they need. The fact that cannabis businesses are considered essential but are still federally illegal showcases the absurdity of the plant medicine’s schedule 1 classification. Moreover, it puts on display how disconnected lawmakers are from the will of the majority of the people.

But that’s not keeping dispensary workers down. In fact, it is heartwarming how people are showing love on social media, dispensaries are feeding hospital workers, sending out hand sanitizer, as well as donating food to people who need it. It is our goal to give back as much as we can. Here are five amazing ways we can help support and show appreciation for our budtenders and essential cannabis workers while keeping everyone safe.

• Tip higher than usual. If you go to a dispensary, obviously it’s a necessity that you wash your hands, wear your face covering - and we also recommend wearing gloves if possible. For us, the second necessity is that we tip well, especially if you still have a job. Delivery drivers and budtenders are literally putting their lives on the line to provide us with cannabis, so it’s the least we can do.
• Stay out of dispensaries if you can. This might sound counterintuitive, but the more we enter public spaces in general, the more risk we take in spreading the virus. If you have the option to get delivery or curbside pickup, that is likely the better choice. It’s one of the best ways we can help stop the spread of coronavirus.
• Boost your philanthropy. Giving back to communities and helping people who need it go hand-in-hand with cannabis. This has only increased since the COVID-19 outbreak.
• Spread the word and help educate. Close to 250,000 cannabis industry workers and entrepreneurs have been facing discrimination for years. They are denied bank accounts and loans. It’s not really a surprise that the cannabis industry wasn’t a part of the first wave of federal disaster relief. We can speak out against this by demanding that congresspeople include cannabis businesses as a part of the CARES Act.
• Register to vote and support cannabis issues. 2020 voting might have to be done via mail-in ballot, but that shouldn’t stop us from supporting the cannabis community. Be sure to stay informed by following pro-cannabis law organizations like NORML, Marijuana Policy Project, and the Cannabis Voter Project. State and local elections are more important than federal ones - now more than ever.

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