LOS ANGELES — In March, Los Angeles voters endorsed a plan to bring order to the city’s long-unruly marijuana market while clearing the way for recreational sales to begin next year, making L.A. the biggest city with legal pot sales in the country. The rules would keep pot businesses largely out of residential neighbourhoods, while creating buffer zones around schools, libraries and public parks. The long-delayed guidelines would be a milestone: Growers and sellers need local licenses before they can apply for state permission to operate in the new, legal pot economy. How many businesses will be licensed in the city on Jan. 1 for legal recreational sales? Without the regulations, there could be limited options in many places for consumers eager to start the new year with a legal pot purchase.

Source: National Post December 06, 2017 09:00 UTC