America’s first recreational pot licenses issued in Colorado [1]

Colorado made history on Monday, becoming the first state in the US to issue hundreds of licenses for recreational marijuana businesses.

Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division approved 348 licenses: 136 to pot shops, 31 to marijuana-infused products companies, 178 to growing facilities, and three to marijuana-testing laboratories. All businesses had to apply by the end of October in order to receive their licenses by New Year’s Eve and begin operating on January 1. As RT reported [2] earlier, Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize the recreational use of marijuana after voters approved the measures in referendums.

Read more: http://rt.com/usa/first-recreational-pot-licenses-colorado-743/ [3]