At Uncle Ike's Pot Shop, The Clientele Is Evolving

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Cannabis candies, concentrates, tinctures, e-cigs and top shelf grows: marijuana retail products are exploding and prices are coming down in pot shops. The customer base is broadening too.

“We’re getting lots of tourists, lots of locals, lots of medical marijuana patients,” said Kyle Regan a manager at Uncle Ike’s recreational pot shop in Seattle. “When we first opened, we had the older crowd, forty and up, coming in,” he said, but now that prices have gone down the store is seeing more twenty-somethings as well.

Some baby boomers are returning to a pastime they gave up after college. Younger customers seem to be rolling marijuana into their lifestyles, asking about products they could use on an upcoming hike or to help them sleep when they have a cold.

Greg James, publisher of Marijuana Venture magazine said he had visited half a dozen retailers over the last few...

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/julieweed/2015/07/14/whos-buying-pot-now/