Green Tuesday: Crowds line up at 1st East Coast pot shops
November 21, 2018
LEICESTER, Mass. (AP) — Customers waited in long lines, sometimes for hours, on a cold and rainy New England day to be among the first people to legally buy recreational marijuana on the U.S. East Coast.
More than two years after Massachusetts voters approved of legalizing marijuana for adults, the state's first two fully licensed pot shops opened Tuesday in Leicester and Northampton, selling strains of the part of the plant that can be smoked; pre-rolled joints; and edibles such as brownies and chocolate bars.
Marijuana is already sold legally in six Western states, but the long-awaited openi...
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