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Almost anywhere you live in Alberta, someone wants to open a pot shop.

The renamed Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis Commission (AGLC) has received about 450 applications since opening its process March 6 for setting up marijuana retail stores once recreational use of the drug becomes legal in Canada this summer.

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Some propositions were rejected and others haven’t yet been checked to ensure they’re filled out properly and the fees paid before a detailed review is done, but almost 270 applications have passed initial scrutiny and been posted on the AGLC website.

That includes requests for more than 80 locations in the capital region, mostly in Edmonton. A city report indicates that by mid-April more than 94 applications to open stores in Edmonton had been made to the AGLC.

About a half-dozen are in the popular Old Strathcona entertainment area, with the rest spread out, likely because of the city’s proposed separation zones between each store and from schools, libraries and recreation centres.