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Droves Turn Out For First Day Of Legal Marijuana Sales

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A line forms outside of Cultivate in Leicester, one of two stores to legally sell marijuana recreationally in Massachusetts, on Tuesday. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
A line forms outside of Cultivate in Leicester, one of two stores to legally sell marijuana recreationally in Massachusetts, on Tuesday. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Two years after voters approved it on the ballot, recreational marijuana is for sale in Massachusetts. Customers lined up as early as midnight outside the two stores opening Tuesday, Cultivate in Leicester and New England Treatment Access in Northampton.

They braved the cold, rain and snow for their first legal highs.

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Quincy Walters, WBUR reporter. He tweets @quincy_walters.

Steve Hoffman, chairman of the Cannabis Control Commission, which tweets @MA_Cannabis.

This segment aired on November 20, 2018.

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