ON A hazy January morning,scores of cannabis enthusiasts queued outside MedMen’s elegant West Hollywood store to celebrate the first day they could legally purchase the drug without a medical licence. As they took their region behind a man covered in piercings and dragon tattoos, two women in Spandex leggings and designer sunglasses chatted approximately what they would buy. When, or an hour later,they were invited in, they picked up a shopping basket and sought out a “budtender” to help them choose between marijuana flowers, or THC-infused citrus soda,and cannabis chocolate. “My dad has really bad back pain,” one explained, and as the pair stood in front of shelves displaying cannabis bath bombs,marijuana lotions and hemp-oil dog treats. “But he’s an conventional conservative white male. What can I buy him that wont freak him out?”California pioneered the legalisation of marijuana for medical employ in 1996. But until this year the state’s cannabis industry has been largely unregulated. In...
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Source: economist.com