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Show HN: Real-time 4/20 cannabis sales dashboard using Estuary and Tinybird

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Show HN: Real-time 4/20 cannabis sales dashboard using Estuary and Tinybird

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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.

Show HN: Real-time 4/20 cannabis sales dashboard using Estuary and Tinybird
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Cool map, I'd speed it up a bit though

FYI, the time displays are a bit off. The time box seems correct. The time slider is off. The animation goes beyond the last time. Up to you if the slider stops in the middle, or goes to 100% which becomes larger as the day progresses

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Walk-in sales indicate these stores are everywhere . It's kind of scary to be honest.

The irony is my hippie uncle hates how legalization took away a lot of the culture surrounding weed in terms of bonding over the illegally and cooperatively hiding each others "bad habits."

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Walk-in sales indicate these stores are everywhere . It's kind of scary to be honest.

What is the scary part?

It's high potency THC with things like live resin to get you even higher. It's marketed casually like alcohol. Teens and new adults casually getting into this stuff will have issues especially if they are predisposed to a variety of mental issues. The same is true for people who are depressed and use alcohol to "chill out", it's never ends well. We as a society don't have any clue when we roll out these "new features" on every corner. Same with anything, same with video games, same with social media. Your seven year old is addicted to tiktok, imagine that. Your 15 year old can't turn the fucking video games off. Your 25 year old can't put Instagram down. I'm not even talking about the whole class of drug addicts. Now imagine being addicted to all fucking 5 of those things? Then you get the 30 year old in therapy.

I would personally limit the number of purchases like we do Pseudoephedrine, and if you need more, get a medical prescription. We'll probably realize this in about 20 years, like we are finally realizing about social media. Social media needs to be 18+, like porn sites. Took us 20 years, but many places are doing it. We never have a serious discussion about anything when we roll it out. Alcohol on every corner and supermarket was one of the stupidest things we ever did.

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What is the scary part?

It's high potency THC with things like live resin to get you even higher. It's marketed casually like alcohol. Teens and new adults casually getting into this stuff will have issues especially if they are predisposed to a variety of mental issues. The same is true for people who are depressed and use alcohol to "chill out", it's never ends well. We as a society don't have any clue when we roll out these "new features…

I think of it as an equivalent to drinking alcohol. If someone is "waking and baking" every day then they have a substance abuse problem just as if they were waking up and driving half a bottle of scotch.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the scary part?

It's high potency THC with things like live resin to get you even higher. It's marketed casually like alcohol. Teens and new adults casually getting into this stuff will have issues especially if they are predisposed to a variety of mental issues. The same is true for people who are depressed and use alcohol to "chill out", it's never ends well. We as a society don't have any clue when we roll out these "new features…

> We don't have a clue as a society yet.

Yes we do. Drugs are not new. We're tired of prohibition and the needless human suffering it has bought about. It has not and will never work. The answer is education and mental health services. Not treating the public like children.

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