Washington State has installed vaccinations at marijuana outlets: they distribute cigarettes to those who receive their dose

In the United States, local governments and businesses offer incentives in order to that people decide to inoculate against COVID-19: money, scholarships, beer and even free haircuts, for those who get the vaccine.

But the state of Washington, one of the most progressive in the country, took it a step further and decided to donate marijuana.

The committee of liquor and the state of cannabis has just announced that it allows marijuana sales centers (that in this state they are absolutely legal) give marijuana cigarettes to adults who receive their vaccine at these centers. It is that in an effort to make the vaccine available to everyone in Washington Vaccination clinics have been set up in marijuana sales centers.

The process is simple. You can go with a shift or go straight to multiple marijuana distributors and ask for the vaccine. As a gift and an incentive, the person can take a cannabis cigarette.

The campaign even has an attractive and humorous name, Seals for Jabs (which in English means injection cigarettes). The state, like most of the country, is striving to achieve the goal of vaccinate 70% of their adult population before July 4, based on the promise made by the president Joe biden. Governor Jay inslee He said reaching that point would lift most of the restrictions that still remain in Washington. Is it different from what is happening in other parts of the country, In this northwestern state, mask usage rules and capacity limits within business premises are still in effect.

The program in marijuana dispensers will be in effect until July 12. The rules are clear: Only one cigarette can be offered per person, other cannabis products cannot be included and only people over the age of 21 can participate. Cannabis sales centers may advertise this promotion.

Although some cannabis sales centers in the country have set up similar programsThis is the first time that the initiative has come from the State.

In Arizona, the distributor mint Cannabis joined the authorities to set up vaccination clinics at its three sites in the city of Phoenix. At the private initiative of the provider, People over 21 who were vaccinated received a marijuana cigarette or cannabis candy as a gift.

At Washington, the state had already approved similar incentives with Beer, wine Yes drinks. But the authorities realized that the trade in the sale of cannabis had particularly developed during the pandemic., where requests for licenses to open dispensaries have increased, and so they concluded that would be a more attractive incentive.

At the start of the pandemic, Washington and California were the first states to report cannabis dispensary workers as essential workers. In California, there was a controversy at the start of the vaccination campaign with the main teachers union because the designation in the category of essentials that workers had in the sale of marijuana put them above the priority to be vaccinated, above the teachers.

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