The Top Shelf seeks to grow local recreational marijuana business

By AL STOVER

Staff Reporter

When customers walk into a recreational marijuana store for the first time, they might expect to walk into a smoke-filled room with no windows, Bob Marley posters hanging on the walls and a Cheech and Chong movie playing on a small television in the back.

Customers who walk into the The Top Shelf, will show the security guard their ID, go through the door and enter a clean room where merchandise is displayed in jewelry cases and on shelves.

"I wanted to make it more sophisticated," Florence Childs, owner of The Top Shelf said. "I wanted to get away from the stereoty...