Mike Baker at the AP has created a fantastic Google map of all the locations where applicants want to open marijuana stores in Washington State. Up the I-5 corridor, along Lake City Way, and deep in the industrial flatland of Sodo, pot stores could abound in Seattle.

Check it out here to find the closest pot shop near you.

Props to Baker, who is great on Twitter. But I quibble with one of his comments: "If all these pot shops get approved, Seattle residents will have plenty of options," he says.

Let me put the rest of this post under a fat disclaimer that imperfections with legalization are nonproblems compared to prohibition. That said...

There may be a lots of applications for pot retail shops—and we'll see how many of these are actually approved by state regulators and open up next year—but, as I've written about before, there will be vast pot-store deserts in Seattle due to overlays of federal, state, and local zoning restrictions. So even if there are many pot stores, folks in, say, West Seattle, Magnolia, or Ravenna won't have any options for miles. As RavennaBlog's Twitter presponds to Baker's claim that Seattle will have "plenty" of choices: "Unless you’re in NE Seattle. No good bakeries AND no easy way to get baked."