Post by Logan on Apr 10, 2016 20:26:21 GMT -6
BINGEN, Wash. -- At an age when most people are eager to retire, 68-year-old Margie Lemberger cleaned out a chunk of her savings and started a business.
The retired pharmacist outfitted her homespun shop along a quiet stretch of the Columbia River Gorge with a second-hand couch and other thrift store finds. She picked up display cases from an old grocery store.
It's easy to imagine the store's shelves lined with homemade pies or curios. Instead, they're crowded with Super Sour Diesel, Dirty Girl, Cherry OG and dozens of other marijuana strains.
At first, Margie's Pot Shop, tucked off Washington State Route 14 in Bingen, hummed. Hikers dropped in after a day in the woods. Marijuana smokers from Goldendale and White Salmon in Washington and Hood River in Oregon drove to the outpost marked with a yellow and red sign that Lemberger painted herself.
Read more: www.tri-cityherald.com/news/state/washington/article70783217.html
The retired pharmacist outfitted her homespun shop along a quiet stretch of the Columbia River Gorge with a second-hand couch and other thrift store finds. She picked up display cases from an old grocery store.
It's easy to imagine the store's shelves lined with homemade pies or curios. Instead, they're crowded with Super Sour Diesel, Dirty Girl, Cherry OG and dozens of other marijuana strains.
At first, Margie's Pot Shop, tucked off Washington State Route 14 in Bingen, hummed. Hikers dropped in after a day in the woods. Marijuana smokers from Goldendale and White Salmon in Washington and Hood River in Oregon drove to the outpost marked with a yellow and red sign that Lemberger painted herself.
Read more: www.tri-cityherald.com/news/state/washington/article70783217.html