After California Legalizes Weed, Local Dealers Brace to Compete

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According to Prop. 64, recreational pot products at state-licensed shops will carry a 15 percent excise tax on top of regular sales tax. Photo by Laura Newberry/Mission Local

By Laura Newberry, Mission Local

When it comes to doing business, Leaf isn’t discreet. The friendly 25-year-old saunters around Dolores Park in San Francisco with a big teddy bear on his shoulder and a ring of plastic marijuana leaves around his neck. You can’t miss him.

Selling weed is his game, one he won’t quit anytime soon. Yes, recreational cannabis was just legalized in California on Nov. 8, heralding a new era of pot consumption in America’s most populated state. But he’s not worried.

“I’ll still be out here, because what happens when you don’t want to go out to the club?” Leaf said of recreational dispensaries. “It’s about convenience, and I always have stuff on me. I’m right here.”

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