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Today, my colleague Jack Healy brings us a dispatch from the future — sort of.

He’s based in Colorado, America’s first capital of legal weed, and he recently wrote about how five years of legal marijuana have reshaped life there. So I asked him to tell us about what we might expect here in the Golden State:

As a reporter in Denver, I’ve heard endless jokes about Denver being a different kind of Mile High City and gotten accustomed to pointing curious visitors to dispensaries. The lessons of Colorado’s ups and downs with regulated marijuana have plenty to teach California as it tries to wrap its arms around the unintended consequences of legalization.

Some in Colorado’s marijuana industry feel as if the focus of the legalization debate is veering away from the Rockies and toward California. California is already a vastly larger market — about $2.5 billion in sales last year, compared with Colorado’s $1.5 billion. California has moved faster to clear marijuana convictions from people’s criminal records — a process that has been halting and frustrating for some in Colorado.

And while Colorado spent years debating where people should be able to socially consume the cannabis they had just legally bought, West Hollywood and cities in the Bay Area are allowing cannabis social clubs.