Colorado recreational marijuana retailers begin stocking shelves

[Sagan]

Source: CBS News

DENVER - The world's first state-licensed marijuana retailers, catering to Colorado's newly legal recreational market for pot, are stocking their shelves ahead of a New Year's grand opening that supporters and detractors alike see as a turning point in America's drug culture.

Possession, cultivation and private personal consumption of marijuana by adults for the sake of just getting high has already been legal in Colorado for more than year under a state constitutional amendment approved by voters.

But starting January 1, cannabis will be legally sold and taxed at specially regulated retailers in a system modeled after a regime many states have in place for alcohol sales - but which exists for marijuana nowhere outside of Colorado.

For the novelty factor alone, operators of the first eight marijuana retailers slated to open on Wednesday morning in Denver and a handful of establishments in other locations are anticipating a surge in demand for store-bought weed.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/colorado...cking-shelves/

[Koalafan]

Awwwww yea!

[Inscrutable Banana]

I wonder how long until there's a story about the feds ignoring state laws and raiding stores anyways.

[Skippy]

Yay! Weed is gonna be legal soon. I wonder if this is how people felt when booze was legalized after the alcohol prohibition.
What I hate tho is its only illegal unless the gov gets money outta it. I swear people give to much to such. We should have all been equals.
I'm really high right now so I may be just rambling.