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Built this dashboard to visualize cannabis sales in real time across North America during 4/20. The data updates live from thousands of dispensary POS transactions as the day unfolds.

Under the hood, we’re using Estuary for data streaming and Tinybird to power super fast analytical queries. The charts are made in Tremor and the map is D3.

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ivape ◴[] No.43746739[source]
Walk-in sales indicate these stores are everywhere. It's kind of scary to be honest.
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1. kstrauser ◴[] No.43747444[source]
There are more liquor stores than weed stores near me. We've decided as a society that it’s OK to have liquor stores all over the place. It’s wild to me to fret over the far fewer numbers of dispensaries.

Yeah, weed is probably bad for you, given enough of it. It turns out there's no safe dose of alcohol, and no one’s figured out where weed’s harm eventually kicks in, so why worry about its societal effects which we know are vastly lesser?

I drink beer and don't use weed. All of the above is from someone who couldn’t care less about marijuana for themselves.