PROVIDENCE – The first day of legal weed sales in Rhode Island Thursday was, well, mellow – punctuated by a 96-year-old war veteran buying a pot cookie to have with his coffee and a state senator picking up some cannabis-infused stocking-stuffers for friends. Absent at the five medical marijuana dispensaries that turned attention to recreational-use sales for the first time … [Read more...] about How did Rhode Island’s first day of retail marijuana sales go? Pretty mellow.