Crowds continue to flock to retail marijuana dispensaries throughout the day at The Green Solution in Denver to celebrate the New Year.
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Store owner Toni Fox, second from right, greets customers standing in a snaking line numbering several hundred people shortly after the opening of her 3D Cannabis Center in Denver at 8 a.m. on Wednesday Jan. 1, 2014.
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An employee weighs portions of retail marijuana to be packaged and sold at 3D Cannabis Center in Denver ahead of what some are calling ‘Green Wednesday.’
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Sean Azzariti, a veteran of the Iraq war, makes the first legal recreational marijuana purchase in Colorado from advocate Betty Aldworth at the 3-D Denver Discrete Dispensary.
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Sam Walsh, a budtender, sets up marijuana products at a new dispensary in Denver.
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Employees help customers at the crowded sales counter inside Medicine Man marijuana retail store.
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Employee David Marlow, right, helps a customer, who smells a strain of marijuana before buying it, at the crowded sales counter inside Medicine Man marijuana retail store in Denver.
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Crowds gather at 3-D Cannabis to make retail marijuana purchases on the first day of legalization in Colorado.
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