SALEM — City Councilor Josh Turiel needed help. It had been three decades since he smoked marijuana, and on Saturday morning, with a dozen photographers and reporters watching, he mulled his options as the ceremonial first customer of the first recreational pot store to open in Eastern Massachusetts.
“My usual thing is, I’ll go home, and after dinner, sit in a lounge chair and pour a glass of bourbon over some ice and just sit there and sip it for a few hours, just relaxing,” Turiel said, standing at the counter inside. “What would you guys go with for something like that?”
“I would go Girl Scout,” said Kate Nelson, a budtender at Alternative Therapies Group, or ATG.
