How Pot Shops Are Becoming More Like the Apple Store

When legal pot shops first opened up in America, there wasn’t a ton of thought given to retail design and aesthetics. Understandably so: Compared to the old pot-buying experience—stealthily purchasing a dime bag on the street corner or in the basement of your friendly neighborhood drug dealer—any store could look fancy and inviting.

Now that recreational marijuana has become fully established in ColoradoWashington, and Oregon, and medicinal marijuana stores appear in many other states, however, it’s clear that legal pot is a big business and won’t be getting shut down anytime soon. So it makes sense that the places selling it should look like sleek, professional retail businesses too.

And that’s exactly what’s happening to pot shops around the country, the Denver Post reports. For example, The Clinic, a cannabis dispensary with locations in Colorado, Illinois, and Nevada, just spent a little over $1 million to...

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