Culture and Lifestyle
Board in the New York cannabis community.
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Retired, curious, and slightly out of place on forums like this
Everyone here seems to know the shorthand and I am reading with a notepad. I am asking the basic questions on purpose because someone has to. Any other newcomers around?
Culture and LifestyleUticaUrsulaREGULAR11 days ago1 comment
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the drive home is the part i actually like
long roads, no radio, windows down after a trailhead. the culture around this is all city noise and mine is a two lane road in october. anyone else out here?
Culture and Lifestylehv_hiker_845REGULAR19 days ago1 comment
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Crossing a county line and watching the price change is a whole New York experience
I split my week between here and the city and I have started treating the drive as an accidental economics experiment. Same person, same week, same everything, and the number changes depending on which side of a line I happen to be standing on. Not by a little either. What gets me is that nobody involved seems to think this is strange. Ask about it and you get an explanation about costs and rent and taxes, and fine, but that does not really explain the size of the gap. Does anyone else deliberately time their errands around this? I am not proud of it but I absolutely do.
Culture and LifestyleYonkersYazREGULAR22 days ago0 comments
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Best late-night food within walking distance of a shop, go
Purely practical thread and I will not pretend otherwise. I am a student, I have no car, and my evenings are organised entirely around what is walkable. So I want your list: what is the food, where roughly is it, and is it open when it says it is open, because half the hours online are fiction. Syracuse contributions especially welcome but I will take anything statewide, I travel occasionally and I plan those trips around eating. Bonus points for cheap. Actually, no, cheap is the whole point.
Culture and LifestyleSyracuseSamLOCAL25 days ago2 comments
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Fifty-three and still not used to smelling it on the block
Not a complaint exactly, just an adjustment. Twenty years ago this would have been a whole thing and now it is Tuesday. Anyone else our age still recalibrating?
Culture and LifestyleFlushingFrankLOCAL26 days ago1 comment
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Every dispensary interior in this city looks like the same Apple Store, why
Professional hazard, I look at rooms for a living. And I cannot stop noticing that a huge number of these places have converged on one identical look: pale wood, white walls, black sans serif type, one plant, everything under glass, lit like a phone store. Once you see it you cannot unsee it. I understand where it came from. If you are a brand new category and you want to look legitimate and calming rather than sketchy, minimal and clinical is the safest possible choice. It photographs well and it offends nobody. But it also means walking into somewhere in one borough feels the same as another, and the neighbourhood may as well not exist. The places I have actually enjoyed being in were the ones that looked like they belonged to their block. Has anyone else noticed this shifting, or are we stuck with the white box for another few years?
Culture and LifestyleBushwickBreeREGULAR28 days ago2 comments
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The design language of all of this is fascinating and bad
Everything is either pharmacy white or nineteen seventies revival, nothing in between. I notice packaging before I notice anything else and lately it is all shouting. Is anyone doing something quieter?
Culture and LifestyleBushwickBreeREGULAR1 month ago2 comments