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The subscription service is currently unavailable. Please try again later.In the state’s first checkup on recreational-marijuana stores, four of 22 stores sold marijuana to underage buyers, according to the Liquor Control Board.
The state last week announced it would use 18- to 20-year-old buyers as part of a compliance-check program launching this month.
If asked for identification, the buyers were directed either to say they did not have ID or present a real state-issued identification. People must be 21 and older to legally buy marijuana.
Brian Smith, a spokesman for the Liquor Control Board (LCB), said the agency had spent the past year educating retailers on best practices to not sell to minors.
“We recognize this is a new industry. Any news of this will spike compliance — that’s how compliance checks work,” Smith said.
Smith recommended stores double-check IDs.
“People do make mistakes … they don’t do the math correctly,” Smith said.
Smith said all of the state’s...
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