Just two minutes before the Monday grand opening of Logan Square’s first medical marijuana dispensary, co-owner Doug Marks steps out of the space’s Milwaukee Avenue entrance. The entryway is easy to miss—the word “moca,” short for Modern Cannabis, is stamped on the door in bright yellow, pink, and blue, but the words nearly blend in with the mass of posters and graffiti that dominates the adjacent wall.
“We have to be very careful in inventory,” he adds. “We have to be very careful about how we describe our product to people, whether it’s craft beer or cannabis.”
In February 2018, this article was updated to use the phrase ‘arcade bar’ in place of the word originally used.
