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"Teens know where they can get it." Patel has 15 locations across the Bay Area, including Berkeley, Oakland, Union City, Hayward, San Jose, and Sunnyvale

While the initiative still prohibited the sale or purchase of cannabis the drug was still an illegal substance according to federal law at the time it allowed entrepreneurs to develop a gifting market where individuals could purchase a low cost item (like a sticker or bottle of water) at an inflated price, and then be gifted the goods that they actually came for free of charge. By providing its citizens with a pathway to buy regulated cannabis products, the DC government helped to mitigate the risk that consumers would purchase these products on the black market

This could be particularly useful for the development of effective tobacco legislation and strengthen the implementation of FCTC policies

The report concludes with a discussion of policy issues and considerations for Congress