Legal marijuana sales start in Colorado

 

First off, I ask myself, how long until pot is legal in the entire USA?

 

Retail marijuana stores are open for business on New Years’ Day in Colorado, the first state that has successfully legalized the controlled sale and use of recreation pot. But that doesn’t necessarily mean the cloud of legal controversy has lifted.

 

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Source: United States Fish and Wildlife Service

Several approved retail stores planned to open on New Years’ morning in Colorado, with as many as 30 stores officially ending the prohibition on legalized marijuana in that state.

Washington state also legalized marijuana in November 2012, but it is at least six months away from having a government-controlled sales system in place.

Officials in Washington state are using their liquor control board (or LCB) to handle the legal process of making marijuana available to the public, which has turned out to be a much-slower tactic that the Colorado model- which uses a medical marijuana network that is already in place.

The Washington LCB has 3,746 applications to grow, process, or sell marijuana that it needs to weed through.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer says that it was told by the LCB that it takes 90 days to process each application.

It also asks a question that we covered in depth last month.