system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why is Washington State taking so much longer than Colorado to make recreational marijuana available, given that both states approved it at the same time?
gpt
In Colorado, the medical marijuana growers were allowed to sell medical marijuana to the non-medical sellers for a year until the stores could grow their own. Washington did not have a similar policy and the first consumer marijuana will have been grown for the consumers and not medical patients.