I live in WA state where pot is legal for recreational use. One platform I use is iSecretShop, have seen Catch Fire's contract to accept but I haven't accepted it. I haven't seen jobs for it but I also wasn't looking for them since I don't really like pot. I have been to the stores though with others, and they are just like any other store providing luxury items where you walk in, they provide customer service, have specialized product knowledge, specialty items (edibles, pipes, etc). I would equate it to going to a specialty wine or beer shop except it does smell like weed a little in there.
And they card you when you walk in the door rather than when you buy. The pot is sold in pretty little packages and looks like something you might buy at Whole Foods lol. In fact I am just waiting for the law to open up a little more and for Whole Foods to start selling natural/organic pot hahahha.
On the topic of "seeming like a pothead" I can't speak for other places, but in Seattle, just going to the pot store is not going to brand you anything negative for anyone but the most conservative of people. People think of it as equal to or even milder a drug than alcohol. While it was just recently legalized, people have never thought of it as a major problem, people talk openly about whether or not they smoke or like pot, and there was a law that made it the "lowest law enforcement priority," basically making it legal for cops to look the other way unless there was a large amount or some other shenanigans going on (not an attorney but that's how I understood the law back then).
We actually had pretty strict alcohol laws in WA state up until a few years ago as well, with liquor being sold only in state run stores with limited hours (closing at 8 or 10 PM) and inventory (mainstream brands only) and people fought the repeal of that harder than they fought the marijuana legalization law. The only person I knew who was against the marijuana legalization law was a guy with a side hustle as a pot dealer haha (which was also as common, or perhaps much more common that knowing someone with a side hustle as a mystery shopper lol). There were commercials on TV basically implying that if liquor was sold in grocery stores, all the teenagers of the state were going to become rampant alcoholics and their futures would be ruined (because as you know, teenagers never drink alcohol as it is, lol). Meanwhile you would frequently see people smoking pot outside and no one doing one thing about it or even care. And all that happened after the grocery stores started carrying liquor was now you can get all kinds of specialty brands you couldn't get before and you can get it for more hours.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/02/2016 03:45AM by CeciliaM.