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Debit cards can be accepted and is not the same as a credit card transaction.

She signed. Does that mean it was processed as a credit-card transaction?

Retail worker here. If she signed on a pinpad, it was credit. However, if she used debit and didn't use a PIN, she would have had to sign a copy of the reciept.

...why is this downvoted? I explained the process.

And now my question about being downvoted is being downvoted, because I'm being upvoted now.

See, this is the weak point of voting systems on websites. You don't actually know why you've bern ____voted, and asking is liable to backfire.

All of the dispensaries in Oregon that I know of have ATM machines on the inside and instruct customers that only brought plastic to take out cash for their transactions.

They were likely using Square in violation of the EULA (many despensaries say that they're "flower shops") and just flying under the radar at the moment.