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First adult-use marijuana store in Kennebec County opens in Waterville Sweet Dirt, an Eliot-based company, opened Wednesday in the former Pine Cone Gift & Furniture Shop on Kennedy Memorial Drive. Share WATERVILLE — For Tally Leavitt, being able to walk into an adult-use marijuana store to legally buy products is the realization of a longtime dream. Leavitt, 63, was one of the first customers Wednesday at Sweet Dirt, the first adult-use store in Kennebec County which opened at 475 Kennedy Memorial Drive. “I was one of the group of people that, years ago, did the first smoke-in outside the courthouse in Skowhegan, protesting for the legalization of marijuana,” Leavitt, of Waterville, said. “I just kind of chuckle at it now, because I always tell my kids I remember when we tried to get that legalized — and here it is, legalized. This is the first time I’ve ever been in a marijuana facility.”