It’s not unusual for 24-year-old Maggie Copeland to have a conversation with her coworkers about pot.
“It’s quite professional,” she said of her nonprofit office in Denver, Colorado. “Weed comes up a lot.
“After a tough day, it’s not uncommon that people at work will say ‘I’m gonna go smoke a bowl’ instead of ‘I’m gonna have a glass of wine’.”
If demand is any indication, in the 18 months since recreational marijuana sales became legal, pot has been a booming success. There are now four dispensaries in the Denver area for every Starbucks in the city. And that ratio is growing rapidly.
Though Colorado and Washington both became the first US states to legalize marijuana in November 2012, Colorado has earned far more publicity because its retail sales began six months earlier, giving new meaning to the state’s “Rocky Mountain High”
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