Vancouver's marijuana industry growing like a weed
When Vancouver resident Jon Britt and his girlfriend, Calista Crenshaw, won a Cowlitz County retail marijuana license in the 2014 state lottery, it seemed like perfect timing.
Angler’s Workshop, the fishing supply store Britt’s family had owned in Woodland for 30 years, was being sold to a Colorado company, and the building seemed the ideal spot for a recreational pot shop.
But the Woodland City Council thought otherwise, and it banned recreational pot stores in city limits. Britt and Crenshaw, who had been required to get the store set up to open before receiving their state license, saw their dreams go up in smoke.
“We were sitting with a license we could never use,” said Crenshaw, 36. “We thought we were done.”
Then, the winds shifted in their favor.
In October, the state began allowing the transfer of licenses from jurisdictions that don’t allow retail pot sales to those that...
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