One Washington marijuana advocate turned a drive-thru into the high-thru.
Jonah Tacoma filmed the moment he swapped hits of hash oil for burgers and fries during a trip to Tacoma, Wash., fast food joint Frugals.
Both employees filmed in the April incident, video of which was posted online May 11, have since been fired, the company told KOMO-TV in a statement.
“We were going through the drive-through and when we were done ordering, I offered to pay with a dab instead of cash,” Tacoma, who runs a website and company called Dabstars, told KOMO. “She said, ‘Yeah, sure.’ We started filming when we pulled up.”
The video shows Tacoma roll down his window at the drive-thru holding a piece of the sticky, gooey hash oil and asking, “Who’s first?” as the woman at the window smiles.
One man, wearing a Seattle Seahawks hat, runs up and, leaning out the window, takes a puff from the pipe as Tacoma lights it.
“There we go!” he says. “Next!:
A second man, wearing a blue visor, leans out and takes his turn as other employees laugh.
“Alright, never happened,” Tacoma says as he takes a hit of his own and prepares to leave. “Only in America, kids.”
“Frugals has a zero tolerance drug policy in the workplace, and we in no way condone the type of conduct captured,” the company wrote in the statement to KOMO. “How very unfortunate that the media has chosen to spotlight and sensationalize this incident, which may only serve to encourage this type of behavior in publicity seeking individuals. The isolated actions of the two terminated employees do not in any way reflect the Frugals crew as a whole.”
Marijuana is legal in Washington state, but most companies still prohibit employees from being intoxicated while on the job. And Jonah Tacoma claims he used a dab, a concentrated form of cannabis known as hash oil, instead of cash for the transaction.Tacoma filmed the video in April and released in online a month later.
The two employees, both of whom worked at the Pacific Ave. burger joint for about 30 months, were fired after someone saw the video online and alerted the restaurant, according to KOMO.
Tacoma used the video, which has racked up approximately 420,000 views on YouTube, to raise awareness about legal pot and dabbing, which he promotes and produces.
“I don’t think we put them in jeopardy,” he told the TV station. “I think they chose to participate. The reality is we are making a statement.
“It was kind of just funny thing that happened,” he added.
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