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Colorado OKs Use of Public Assistance EBT Cards in Pot Shop ATMs
An interesting debate in Colorado concerning marijuana shops was just resolved in a way that goes against what the owners of pot stores wanted. Colorados Republican legislators proposed to add stores that sell recreational or medical marijuana to the list of places where recipients of public assistance couldnt use their EBT cards at ATMs.
However, Democrats on the State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee voted along party lines to allow the use of public assistance cards on ATMs in pot shops. Their reasoning is that many neighborhoods are banking deserts with few bank outlets and few ATMs. State Senator Irene Aguilar (D-Denver) explained, Im not comfortable limiting that access until Im certain weve done that due diligence to make sure people can access their benefits when they need to. Advocates for the poor agreed, suggesting, as did Terry Scanlon of the Colorado Center on Law & Policy, that they saw the legislation as unnecessary regulation that could prevent access to benefits needed by low-income Coloradans.
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/poli...ic-assistance-ebt-cards-in-pot-shop-atms.html
I'm sure the left will be jubilant about this, after all, the low-income people need a place to cash out their money from Welfare. If they used a bank ATM and then having to stop at their local pot shop.....well, that would be two stops and unnecessary usage of gas, so a one stop shop is economically sound and prudent thing to do.
And for every dollar spent puts $1.70 back into the economy.