Denver's pedestrian mall is the city's busiest shopping district, an all-American high street where crowds bustle between glass-fronted rows of popular retailers. Stores here offer shoppers a high-end array of merchandise from children's toys to cowboy boots and since April, legal marijuana, displayed like so many strains of exotic tea in a mood-lit storefront across from the Sheraton hotel.

Euflora Cannabis Dispensary's owner describes its look as "Starbucks meets Apple".

The shop has three locations and a Twitter account.

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A YEAR into Colorado's "great social experiment", legal marijuana is part of the state's mainstream. But Colorado's drug laws are still at odds with its neighbours, and most of the US.

Denver's pedestrian mall is the city's busiest shopping district, an all-American high street where crowds bustle between glass-fronted rows of popular retailers.

Stores here offer shoppers a high-end array of merchandise, from children's toys to cowboy boots and, since April, legal marijuana, displayed like so many strains of exotic tea in a mood-lit shopfront across from the Sheraton hotel.

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