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Its success has been based around new technology, but meant customers needed cashless payments to use its services.

Buying legal weed can still make you feel like a criminal: Depending on the dispensary, you may have to talk to a bouncer, get buzzed in, traverse a metal detector, or pay through a weird “cashless ATM” system or bank transfer.

Society's move to cashless payments may have had an unintended positive side effect, surgeons say - fewer children needing operations or procedures to remove swallowed coins.

A cashless society also raises concerns about privacy and surveillance.

But the transition to a cashless economy carries significant risks, especially for women, who have historically had to fight for financial independence.