The People's Choice: Marijuana Evolves Into Legal State Industry
When Logan Bowers opened his marijuana retail store Seattle Hashtag in April 2015, he entered an arena far different from his tech-industry background.
Bowers, co-owner of Hashtag and president of the Cannabis Organization of Retail Establishments (CORE), had the same task as other marijuana license holders in the state: bring an industry relegated to street corners and sidewalks into a legal and regulated retail environment.
"We get a lot of local traffic," Bowers said. "A lot of folks kind of walking by who are like, 'What's this about?' And they come in and checked it out and realize we're just a normal business."
Since the voter-approved Initiative 502 – which earned 56 percent of the popular vote in November 2012 – was implemented, the state Liquor and Cannabis Board has issued more than 1,000 licenses to retailers, producers or processors of marijuana under the I-502 system. The LCB issues up...
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