Originally <a href='https://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/showthread.php?p=27497128'>posted</a> on 01/10/2018:

I have bought maybe 4 times in my 40 years of life. But it being legal now in California I just had to to see how buying it at a legal establishment felt.
I thought it would be like a bar/candy store.
So walk up to the building, there are two security guards, with guns, that ask for ID and they scan them. One of them walks you in to the building where there is a line with an individual at the computer taking IDs and entering in all information into the system. Once she got all my info, they buzzed me in to the other room. This other room had a cash register and 4 other people working behind a long counter that had weed behind glass (think jeweler store). The board on the wall gave information about the cost, type, and what company grew it. I only bought an 1/8 just to see the whole process through. Cost posted was $40 for the 1/8 that I bought; after taxes was only $43.30. So only 8.5% taxes instead of the State's 15% + county and city taxes. I don't know if that was an error on their side or if the 15% is already included. It was already bagged when they grabbed my order; I paid, then they put into another sealed bag that looked like a solid white bank bag that had an odd push/slide type seal on it.

The stuff I got was the cheapest, but I didn't care, I'm not trying to get baked every night.