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At the time, Coloradan patients with prescriptions could possess up to two ounces of marijuana at a time and have up to three flowering pot plants. That was thanks to Amendment 20, which was approved by voters in 2000.To Arbeláez, this opportunity was also a very uncertain scenario. "I got to Colorado with $800," he told me. "Back then, in the middle of an economic crisis, there were three kinds of marijuana cultivators in the business. There were the hippies—or people who had homegrown it for a long time—there were criminals, and there was us—people who generally came from other industries that had collapsed at that time, such as real estate.""If we had started promoting recreational marijuana, we would have gotten the federal government pissed off, and it would have shut the whole thing down."
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