Wednesday, 8 January 2014
MEET the FIRST MAN in the world to buy LEGAL MARIJUANA in COLORADO
The sales of legal recreational marijuana began across Colorado Wednesday when an Iraq war veteran Sean Azzariti bought the first bag.
Azzariti, a Denver-based Iraq war veteran suffers from
post-traumatic stress disorder and could not get
marijuana legally to help alleviate his living condition made his purchase at
an 8 a.m. press event.
Here's Azzariti with his bagged marijuana purchase, an Indica strain called Bubba Kush:
The Iraq war veteran purchase in Denver was $59.74, with
tax, for 3.5 grams of Bubba Kush and a bag of pot-infused truffles.
Although Colorado has had medical marijuana laws on the books for
years, PTSD was not covered under state statutes. Now that recreational
marijuana can be purchased and consumed by adults 21 and over, Azzariti
can buy it legally.
The event at 3D Cannabis Center, one of a few dozen Colorado
dispensaries selling recreational pot\marijuana for the first time, was organized
by key Amendment 64 backers Mason Tvert, communications director for
Marijuana Policy Project; Brian Vicente, spokesman for Sensible
Colorado; and Betty Aldworth, spokeswoman for the National Cannabis
Industry Association.
"A lot of folks have been referring to what is happening in Colorado
as an experiment with legal marijuana," said Tvert to a packed crowd
inside 3D. "But, in fact, the experiment was marijuana prohibition and
that experiment dramatically failed, just like the so-called great
experiment of alcohol prohibition."
A line of exuberant prospective marijuana buyers formed around the 3D
building in falling snow, eager to join Azzarti and take advantage of
Colorado's new recreational marijuana law.
“The era of marijuana prohibition is officially over in Colorado,”
said Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project, in a
press statement after sales began. “The state is demonstrating to the
rest of the nation and the entire world that regulating marijuana works.
Colorado voters approved Amendment 64 in 2012. For more than a year,
marijuana consumers have been able to legally possess up to an ounce of
marijuana and grow up to six plants for their personal use, but
Wednesday marked the first day that they can legally purchase marijuana
at a dispensary.
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