Marijuana Business Expands Beyond Smoke and Rolling Papers

Investors study ways to buy into pot as rules change. But is it real or market euphoria?

Jamie Dutra has just finished unlocking the doors and rolling back the security screens at The Dragon, a shop in Toronto's Bloor West Village that is part of a Canadian investment trend.

Only five minutes after opening time, there are two customers and a reporter in the small shop. Dutra is ringing up $18 worth of rolling papers and other things she describes as "accessories for legal smoking mixtures."

Despite the fact that medical marijuana is legal and the federal government is about to lift the prohibition on recreational pot, laws from an earlier era prevent sellers from calling their goods drug paraphernalia, she says.

Glassware at Toronto head shop

A customer admires thousands of dollars worth of 'accessories for legal smoking mixtures,' so named because the law still

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