Friday, November 22, 2013
Pending a New Years Eve bust
The first recreational marijuana retail outlets are set to open in Colorado on or after Jan 1, 2014.
It won't happen in time for shoppers to fill their Christmas stockings, but it's sure to provide a little holiday buzz nevertheless: The nation's first retail marijuana stores --- more than 100 of them --- are expected to open in Colorado on Jan. 1.This does assume that Attorney Corporal Holder won't send his jackbooted thugs to raid the stores sometime between now and then.
So far, the star of the show is Annie’s, currently a medical marijuana outlet in Central City and the recipient of the first local recreational license on Thursday.
That means Annie's will be allowed to expand its pot sales to all adults 21 and older, not just medical patients.
The official openings will come more than a year after state voters approved a plan to begin taxing and selling marijuana, much like alcohol. And many of the new pot stores will be medical dispensaries that will now have a much larger clientele.
"For the first time in history, those who sell marijuana are receiving licenses from the state instead of rap sheets," said Mason Tvert, who co-directed the campaign to legalize in Colorado last year.
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