An interesting look at the pitfalls in legalizing marijuana — mostly, from the business perspective, of going from something illegal to something with a highly-regulated marketplace that is poorly understood.
The great pot experiment
SINCE late 2012, two states have voted to legalise marijuana for recreational use; licensed shops in Colorado and Washington now sell it to anyone who wants it. Six…
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I cannot believe how many of those shops have opened here in Everett, a suburb if Seattle. Practically every strip mall has at least one. There are almost as many huge green crosses as their are gas price signs. I don't know how they will sustain so many competing shops.
+Scott Randel They probably won't.
Here in Colorado, it's been the other way around, sort of. The various cities in the Denver metro area have (mostly) banned pot shops (including medical dispensaries), or put in zoning restrictions so stringent that they;re impossible to meet (500 yards from any school, park, library, day care, etc.) The result is that those places that do allow such shops end up with a big cluster of them (Denver along South Broadway being a good example).
We have one that's in an old house right next to an apartment complex!
Damn hippies!