Cannabis Is Not Chill

Cannabis looks chill from the outside.

Behind the dispensary counter, it can feel like a knife fight.

Cannabis Is Not Chill takes readers inside the pressure, absurdity, heartbreak, and dark humor of working in cannabis retail. Drawing from nearly a decade in the industry, Christopher Sciarappa tells the stories that customers never see: impossible compliance demands, overwhelmed teams, strange and unforgettable customers, managers carrying the weight of an entire building, and the moments when everything survives only because the people inside refuse to let it fall apart.

This is not a book about getting high.

It is a book about work.

About leadership when nobody is coming to help you. About customers who walk through the door on the worst day of their lives. About employees who discover they are stronger than they ever believed. About the emotional cost of carrying a job home with you, and the strange pride that comes from surviving an industry that constantly asks for more.

Darkly funny, deeply personal, and brutally candid, Cannabis Is Not Chill pulls back the curtain on one of the most misunderstood retail environments in America.

If you have ever worked retail, managed a team, survived an impossible customer, or wondered what really happens behind the doors of a dispensary, you will recognize these people.

You may even recognize yourself.

Cannabis may be chill.

The job is not.