Washington initiated legal sale of marijuana

Since yesterday ruled in Washington in the northwestern United States, the sale of cannabis for recreational purposes. 

People began to buy marijuana in Bellingham at 0800's Top Shelf Cannabis, one of the two stores in North Seattle, which began to sell the drug as soon as allowed by state law. 

Washington 24 permits issued its first retail last Monday, but not all businesses start selling from yesterday. 

The first legal marijuana sales in Washington marked a significant step for which began to take action 20 months. 


The states of Washington and Colorado surprised much of the world to vote in November 2012 to legalize marijuana for adults 21 years and create a regulated by the State for the production, sale and collection of taxes from the drug system. 

In Colorado sales began on 1 January. 

In 23 other states and the capital law only authorizes the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.

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