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copobo
06-27-2010, 02:45 AM
In Colorado, Pot-Selling Pioneers Try to Turn a Profit - NYTimes.com (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/business/27pot.html?src=busln)

ANYONE who thinks it would be easy to get rich selling marijuana in a state where it??s legal should spend an hour with Ravi Respeto, manager of the Farmacy, an upscale dispensary here that offers Strawberry Haze, Hawaiian Skunk and other strains of Cannabis sativa at up to $16 a gram.

She will harsh your mellow.

??No M.B.A. program could have prepared me for this experience,? she says, wearing a cream-colored smock made of hemp. ??People have this misconception that you just jump into it and start making money hand over fist, and that is not the case.?

(much more at the link at the top of this post)