With President Obama's staff decision in 2/2009 for there to be no more DEA raids of state-authorized medical marijuana dispensaries, such outlets have greatly multiplied.
There are 13 states which have authorized such open sale of this product: Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon,
Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.
These are privately-owned businesses.
Marijuana dispensaries appear to have a higher-than-usual rate of theft by employee.