By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, Report for America Corps Member msayles@afro.com Washington D.C. is the only place in the United States where marijuana “gifting shops” exist, and they derive from a 2014 voter initiative. Seventy percent of voters approved Initiative 71, which permitted the use of up to two ounces of marijuana and the […]
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