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Taking up vacant storefronts and providing local towns much-needed revenue. that is according to michael learner, a publisher and editor in chief of "kush" magazine and dailybuds.com, trade media for marijuana dispensaries. mr. learner, thank you for joining us first of all. we're not just talking about places that sell to patients that use marijuana as medicine, right? there are a lot of businesses like your magazine, for instance, that are making money from marijuana legitimately. like some in the food industry. i see ads in "kush" for a place. >> yeah. there are so many ancillary businesses...

State and colorado is a for-profit state. we're talking about the gold rush of 2010. >> local towns and states, are they collecting taxes? you observed that states are learning from each other, such as colorado. you saw what was happening in california and you decided to do somethings differently. explain that. >> in colorado, there's over 100,000 patients right now that have paid the state fees of $90 per person. that's over $9 million. as reported last week in the "usa today," it's gone from 270 new patients per day in colorado to 1,000 patients her day, which brings $90,000 per day into the...