Photos: Edible marijuana produced in Seattle

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DB3 employees operate machines to fill bottles with liquid marijuana concentrate, which will be marketed under the name ZootDrops. Patrick Devlin, one of the company's co-founders said they've developed a business that they could be duplicated in Alaska, if marijuana legalization were approved by voters. DB3 Inc. is producing edible marijuana products in a converted chicken salad factory near downtown Seattle. The company products, marketed under the name Zoots, includes concentrated drops and candies. Photos on Monday, September 22, 2014.

SEATTLE -- At first glance, DB3 Inc.'s downtown Seattle factory appears like any other. White walls, tile floors. A staging room stacked with plastic-wrapped cardboard boxes. Sterile and spacious, employees donning white lab coats and hair nets buzz around the factory floor. But what's being produced here is on the cutting edge of a new industry -- one that lies at the heart of Alaska's debate surrounding marijuana legalization.

In a former life, the warehouse was a processing plant for chicken salad. Now, it's mass-producing some of the first recreational marijuana edibles and concentrates in Washington, following the passage of Initiative 502, which legalized recreational marijuana in the state.

"This is a pioneering industry," co-owner Patrick Devlin said. "It's all ground-breaking."

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