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Spokane’s newest pot store opened today: Cannabis & Glass is at 6620 N. Market St., Suite 100, and will be open Monday-Saturday from 9 am to 7 pm. In the wash of brightly lit, sparsely decorated rooms selling weed across the city, this one — run by a pair of 20-somethings — is trying to catch your eye.

“Some of these stores feel so clinical to me,” says 22-year-old Cristy Aranguiz, a former KHQ reporter who is helping her fiancé, 26-year-old Tate Kapple, with the store. (Kapple won the retail license this spring and Aranguiz says they’ve confirmed with the Liquor Control Board that he’s the youngest recreational store owner licensed so far.) “We’re obviously super professional and polished … but we wanted to come across as fun because marijuana is supposed to be fun. That’s why you buy it.”

There’s something else unique here.

“We want you to try it with a fresh pipe every time,” Aranguiz says.

Cannabis & Glass sells pre-rolled joints, but other than that, if you want bud you get a pipe, too. The shop is calling these “bud boxes.” They come with your selected amount of pot (from one to five grams), a pipe or bubbler (depending on how much you’re spending), a grinder, a lighter and a sample of hemp wick.

 http://www.inlander.com/Bloglander/archives/2014/11/12/meet-spokanes-newest-pot-shop

 Ron Rattray

A Washington state farmer is selling off a ton of marijuana — literally 2,000 pounds worth — to the highest bidder in one of the first large-scale legal pot auctions in modern American history.
On Saturday, Randy Williams of Fireweed Farm in Prosser, Wash., will offer for sale the marijuana he's been growing all summer. Most legal marijuana in Colorado and Washington, the only states with legal recreational marketplaces, is grown indoors under electricity-hogging lights in much smaller batches.

Bob Shannon

California grocery retailer Trader Joe’s plans to open its second store in Spokane next year, taking space at the Franklin Park Mall.
The popular Southern California-based company has leased 12,100 square feet in the north Spokane retail mall at 5420 N. Division St., company spokeswoman Alison Mochizuki said.
In October 2011, the company opened its first Eastern Washington store in the Lincoln Heights Village shopping area. Almost cultlike interest in the store’s arrival peaked in the months before the formal announcement by Trader Joe’s.

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