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Legal Recreational Marijuana Sales Begin In California

Published January 1, 2018 at 11:11 AM CST
In this Dec. 29, 2017, photo, Khalil Moutawakkil, co-founder and CEO of KindPeoples, a marijuana dispensary, looks at different marijuana plants on display in his store in Santa Cruz, Calif. Californians may awake on New Year's Day to a stronger-than-normal whiff of marijuana as America's cannabis king lights up to celebrate the state's first legal retail pot sales. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)
In this Dec. 29, 2017, photo, Khalil Moutawakkil, co-founder and CEO of KindPeoples, a marijuana dispensary, looks at different marijuana plants on display in his store in Santa Cruz, Calif. Californians may awake on New Year's Day to a stronger-than-normal whiff of marijuana as America's cannabis king lights up to celebrate the state's first legal retail pot sales. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)

Legal recreational marijuana sales kick off on New Year’s Day in California.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Khalil Moutawakkil, co-founder of KindPeoples in Santa Cruz, one of the first businesses to get marijuana licenses in the state.

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