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  California begins its first historic legal sales of recreational marijuana

  World | January 02, 2018 10:22 IST

  "It is probably our busiest day in our seven-year history," said Matt Lucerno, the owner of Buddy's, a dispenser of medical-use marijuana in San Jose that holds the first license issued by California to also sell recreational marijuana.

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  USA: Oregon takes first steps into era of legal retail marijuana

  World | July 01, 2015 22:47 IST

  Williams, Oregon: Forty-two years after Oregon became the first state to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana, the state is taking its first steps toward allowing state-licensed stores to sell limited amounts of it to anyone

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  Jamaica passes act decriminalizing small amounts of pot

  World | February 25, 2015 7:35 IST

  Kingston, Jamaica: Jamaica lawmakers have passed an act to decriminalize small amounts of pot and establish a licensing agency to regulate a lawful medical marijuana industry on the island.The drug has long been culturally entrenched