“I’ve had people come from Richland Center, Prairie du Chien, Elroy, all over,” Murphy said. “I’ve had 90-year-old grandmas in here, and I’ve had little babies (with epilepsy) in here.”

In the United States, an estimated 40.9 million people used cannabis in 2017, and 22.2 million Americans 12 or over have used it in the past 30 days, according to the National Survey on Drug Abuse and Health.

In Wisconsin, an estimated 13% of all residents used marijuana in 2013-14, according to a 2016 state Department of Health Services report.

Early use sparks cannabis career

Sitting inside Kickapoo Kind, his dreadlocks tucked under a stocking cap, is Keegan Murray-King, 26, who has been using cannabis since he was 14.

“The interest was using it as a way to have fun with friends at first, and then slowly it evolved into more of something I did for myself,” Murray-King said. He credits cannabis for helping him quit drinking alcohol, something he also says he started at a young age. “I quickly decided that I wanted to be involved with that plant, probably for the rest of my life.”