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In this photo taken March 24, 2020, customers line up on the sidewalk outside The Reef Capitol Hill, a marijuana store in Seattle and observe social distancing chalk marks on the sidewalk as they wait to get into the store, which was limiting the number of people inside at one time to help slow the spread of the new coronavirus. Earlier in the week, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee ordered nonessential businesses to close and the state's more than 7 million residents to stay home in order to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. In Washington and several other states where marijuana is legal, pot shops and workers in the market's supply chain were deemed essential and allowed to remain open. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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