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Morley, 55 and dressed in jeans, flannel shirt and a Tigers baseball cap, is a major Colorado Springs real estate developer. After a marijuana dispensary opened in one of his buildings, he realized how lucrative the business could be. “Why,” he wondered, “am I...
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