Entrepreneurs did it for burgers and beer, coffee and daiquiris. So, it was just a matter of time before they did it for marijuana.
That is, offer it for sale at a drive-through.
The first drive-through marijuana opened last month in Parachute, Colorado, a small town west of the Rocky Mountains. The Tumbleweed Express Drive-Thru started business April 20, naturally, to coincide with the nation’s unofficial cannabis holiday, 420.
While billed as a drive-through, it’s really more like getting your oil changed than it is pulling up to a Starbucks or McDonald’s.
“A door opens up and you drive the car into the building and then the door closes behind you, like in a Jiffy Lube. So in essence, you’re inside the dispensary, but in a vehicle,” Mark Smith, chief executive of Tumbleweed, told Reuters.
The store opens just as Colorado released numbers showing retails sales of marijuana are hitting record highs in 2017.
Booming marijuana sales in Colorado.
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