Jacob Sullum on Washington’s Legal Marijuana Shortage

Washington’s
state-licensed pot stores are expected to start opening next week,
Jacob Sullum reports, but they won’t have much to sell. Sullum says
a slow state licensing process for marijuana producers, combined
with the difficulty of obtaining local approval for grow
operations, will result in shortages that are apt to be more severe
than those seen in Colorado after recreational sales
began there in January. The result could be prices almost twice as
high as those charged by medical marijuana dispensaries and
black-market dealers.

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