the Harborside decision<\/a>, the point of the analogy is to show that a free service that attracts customers is not a separate trade or business; the analogy doesn\u2019t mean that selling two things automatically means that a marijuana dispensary has two separate trades or businesses.\u00a0 In fitting with the analogy, the court considered Harborside\u2019s non-marijuana sales analogous to a Bookstore B that derived .5% of its revenue from selling stationery, bookmarks, and T-shirts with pictures of books on them, using the same employees, sales floor, management, ledgers, and business entity.\u00a0 Accordingly, even charging for what would otherwise be complementary foods and drinks won\u2019t automatically create a separate trade or business with deductible expenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can Your Marijuana Dispensary Deduct Complimentary Food & Snacks? Jin KimLaw Office of Jin KimFree Consultation(916) 299-9913 Many Marijuana dispensaries provide complimentary food and refreshments. After all, free snacks and drinks can encourage members to spend additional time in the dispensary, purchase additional products, and otherwise support sales. However, while other businesses can easily deduct […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabistaxattorney.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabistaxattorney.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabistaxattorney.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabistaxattorney.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabistaxattorney.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cannabistaxattorney.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/cannabistaxattorney.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62\/revisions\/357"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabistaxattorney.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabistaxattorney.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}