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Actuality, by Marketplace and Quartz

Cannabiz

Sabri Ben-Achour Jun 1, 2016
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A vendor weighs buds for card-carrying medical marijuana patients attending Los Angeles' first-ever cannabis farmer's market at the West Coast Collective medical marijuana dispensary, on Independence Day 2014. FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images
Actuality, by Marketplace and Quartz

Cannabiz

Sabri Ben-Achour Jun 1, 2016
A vendor weighs buds for card-carrying medical marijuana patients attending Los Angeles' first-ever cannabis farmer's market at the West Coast Collective medical marijuana dispensary, on Independence Day 2014. FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images
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They said it couldn’t be done: Ending the American war on marijuana. This week, Actuality tells the ugly truth about cannabis prohibition and peeks at the green shoots of the nascent legal weed industry — but can the architects of a new market avoid the mistakes of the past?

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