Photos: Recreational pot sales drive demand for scarce warehouses and prime storefronts

Cannabis is sold at a dispensary in downtown Los Angeles.

People older than 21 can purchase cannabis products at dispenaries, but they may not use them on the premises. Some pot entrepreneurs hope to open cannabis bars where such activity would be permitted by local authorities.

Sales associate Cole Mercier, center, two shoppers visiting from New York examine cannabis at a downtown Los Angeles dispenary on March 13.

Two shoppers visiting from New York look at marijuana products at a downtown Los Angeles pot dispensary.

Cannabis products on display at a dispensary.

Sales associate Cole Mercier waits for customers at a downtown L.A. dispensary.

Cannabis is examined at MedMen dispensary in downtown Los Angeles.