07/04/2025
Today is the first birthday of our shop in its its current form, as New York State’s first Micro-D!spensary!
We had been planning and persevering for 3 years before we got our c@nnabis license, and once we did, we pushed even harder to open on the 4th of July. Not just because it’s a national holiday, but because of the significance the day holds.
We all carry often disparate thoughts and feelings about America -likely now more than ever- and those are all valid, and as Americans we should be free to express them.
I also recognize that many of the things that have made America so unique are under threat, and it is precisely because of that threat that we also have to recognize America for both what it is, and for what it has the potential to be; however we think or feel about the policies that any given politician might enact, or fail to enact.
The first thing we have to recognize is to understand that the game is rigged. We might “win,” but the house makes the rules, and the slim possibility of “winning” is in itself a trap and a means of control.
Despite that hard truth, I also know there is nowhere else in the world where I would’ve had the chance to be the person I am.
This is where the descendant of enslaved Americans and the descendant of Holocaust survivors would be able to fall in love, and decide to pursue their dreams together.
For better or worse, everything we are and everything we have built could not have occurred were it not for the world-changing experiment that is America.
We are in a time of what many consider a crisis. It is exactly because of this crisis that we have to seize the opportunity to recalibrate what it means to be an American and redefine what America has the potential to be.
I feel deeply that LotusWorks is not an outlier, it is the goddamn American Dream incarnate. Not the bu****it dreams we’ve been sold, but the ones we actually get up and fight for every day.
May God bless and keep us all, and may we magnify and multiply the blessings we have been given, that we might be a blessing unto others.
Happy birthday to LotusWorks and happy birthday to America.
-Aaron
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