Pot dispensaries in Southern California were scrambling Sunday to prepare for their first day of legal recreational marijuana sales, with a historic state law permitting such businesses set to take effect New Year’s Day. Existing medical marijuana dispensaries have been given first priority for recreational sales. The city of Los Angeles has yet to start issuing local licenses to pot shops, which stirred unease among some existing medical marijuana dispensaries that have been following city rules. The budtender said he would not have voted to legalize recreational marijuana use if he knew the cost would jump so high. But this year, he expects business to “double or triple on top of that” because of recreational marijuana sales.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 01, 2018 03:22 UTC