Pot advocates hope other states follow Colorado’s example
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 2014 LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY JANUARY 1, 2014, 10:29 PM
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DENVER — Crowds were serenaded by live music as they waited for the nation’s first legal recreational pot shops to open. They ate doughnuts and funnel cakes as a glass-blower made smoking pipes. Some tourists even rode around in a limo, eager to try weed but not so eager to be seen buying it.
And when the sales began, those who bought the drug emerged from the stores, receipt held high and carrying sealed shopping bags, to cheers.
“I’m going to frame the receipt when I go home, to remind myself of what might be possible: Legal everywhere,” musician James Aaron Ramsey, 28. Ramsey, who did some time in jail for pot possession in Missouri, played folk tunes with his guitar for those in line.
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