SKTO in sweet spot as battle begins over the billi
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With medical marijuana finally legal in Illinois and officials still wrangling the details of the highly-restrictive law, pharmacists have thrown their hat into the ring of potential pot peddlers.
Pharmacists aren't the only ones clamoring for one of the just 60 licensed dispensaries to be allotted statewide: Smoke shops have been trying to get their piece of the pot pie as early as last summer.
"It makes perfect sense," pharmacist Joseph Friedman, who wants to open his own medical marijuana dispensary, told the Tribune. "After all, pharmacists are the drug experts."
According to the Tribune, NORML Illinois' executive director doesn't want to see Big Pharma sink its claws into "the potentially multibillion-dollar business" and edge out the little guy.
From Huffington Post.

