yeah, because when I think of a demographic that I trust not to be unhinged, it’s “dudes who’re ineligible to be cops for various reasons but still want to have a gun at their day job”

Same here - you just have to go in to basically any smoke shop/bodega and ask for their selection of real weed. I moved here from CA where it's normal to smoke and the last few months have been a revelation; there are now multiple places within a few minutes' walk that sell bud completely openly - quite nice flower, on top of being so accessible now.