The ambitious pot farmers superstore weGrow opens its first franchise. Has medical marijuana gone mainstream?
posted on March 1, 2011, at 2:00 PM The first weGrow superstore - the one-stop shop for legal pot growers - opened over the weekend, and its owners say it will become "the Walmart of Weed." Photo: Facebook SEE ALL 36 PHOTOS
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The video: Oakland-based weGrow, a hydroponics store that bills itself as "the Walmart of Weed," opened its first franchise over the weekend, in Sacramento. And if business is good in California, weGrow plans to expand to other states flirting with the medical marijuana craze: Arizona, Colorado, New Jersey, and Oregon. The growing-supply warehouse store doesn't sell marijuana itself, but proudly proclaims itself the first one-stop supply shop for legal pot growers. "We're all about coming out of the shadows," says company founder Dhar Mann. (Watch a news report below.)[Read The Rest By Clickig Here]
