CBS News correspondent Tony Dokoupil reports from Northampton, Massachusetts, where one of two stores opening in the state is located and where David Narkewicz will welcome legal recreational marijuana as both the ceremonial first customer and the town's mayor.
"I think there's a lot going on here in trying to bring marijuana out of the shadows," Narkewicz said.
Massachusetts is the seventh state to open retail marijuana shops, but the first to open them east of the Mississippi.
Earlier this month, Michigan became the first Midwestern state to approve recreational cannabis– joining 10 other states and Washington, D.C.
In October, Canada became the first major world economy to legalize recreational marijuana.
"There has been marijuana use going on in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for a long, long time.
Massachusetts legalized recreational marijuana more than two years ago, but retail stores had to meet a number of rigorous conditions laid out by the state before opening. »
