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July 1, 2014

Bumpy road ahead for legal pot sales

  • Colorado already had a regulated medical system, making for a smoother transition when it started recreational sales in January.
    • By GENE JOHNSON
    Associated Press

    Pete O'Neil saw Washington's legalization of marijuana in 2012 as a path to retirement, or at least to his kids' college tuition.

    He's paid tens of thousands of dollars in rent on possible locations for a pot-shop chain, hired lawyers and picked out flooring. But now the nation's second legal recreational marijuana industry is about to start without him.


     
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