EBT Cards Can Be Used At ATM's In Pot Shops

[OnePercenter]

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. Colorado’s Republican legislators proposed to add stores that sell recreational or medical marijuana to the list of places where recipients of public assistance couldn’t 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, “I’m not comfortable limiting that access until I’m certain we’ve 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.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

My point is that if they're so damn needy, why in hell would they even be in a pot shop?
I would feel the same about a casino or liquor store.
If they want to gamble, get drunk, or high, get a friggin' job....but not on my dime (or dollar).

If you want to make a law that determines where and how people are allowed to spend their government benefits, then do that. Don't try to pretend that you want the government to be "smaller" and "less intrusive" though.

Playing games with ATMs is just stupid and piddly.

Agreed. What difference does it make if they withdraw the money there in the store or walk across the street to the bank and do it?

The issue I see is why they're allowed to withdraw money from it at all. That's what should change.

Why not? There are no restrictions as to where one can spend their welfare benefits or unemployment.

You are aware that EBT cards hold more than just Food Stamps, right?

 

[william the wie]

Just lurking because this thread is funny.

 

[HUGGY]

I think the bigger "crime" is using private ATM's and wasting the tax payers money on exhorbitant non account ATM fees.

Most EBTs are set up with Chase Bank. I think it would be prudent to make the card holders at least get thier cash at full value.

 

[william the wie]

I think the bigger "crime" is using private ATM's and wasting the tax payers money on exhorbitant non account ATM fees.

Most EBTs are set up with Chase Bank. I think it would be prudent to make the card holders at least get thier cash at full value.

wouldn't that reduce bribe revenues?

 

[whitehall]

Funny how the radical left argued that Americans couldn't possibly obtain a photo I.D. card to vote but they had EBT cards all along.