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Institute offers seminar on how to start pot business
An institute is teaching a weekend course on how to start a marijuana business in the state. Washington Cannabis Institute is offering a seminar with attorneys and industry pros who have prepared a course for starting a pot business. The class will help those who want to start a business ...
Colorado shares its success in marijuana business
It is a sea of green. In a 20,000-square-foot Colorado warehouse, marijuana is legally permitted and grown on a scale not yet seen in Washington. Several rooms across two levels provide places for pot to grow at various stages of cultivation. Voters in Colorado and Washington both legalized recreational marijuana ...
State Liquor Control Board releases first draft of legal pot ground rules
For months, the Washington State Liquor Control Board has been studying how to mold the recreational marijuana market. On Thursday afternoon, the board released a first draft of rules and guidelines for the legal pot industry. The rules look at how the state wants businesses to grow and sell marijuana. ...
Medicinal and recreational pot working together?
Only KIRO 7 Eyewitness News has learned about a possible deal in the works that could change the way marijuana is sold in Washington state. A local medical marijuana company - the Northwest Patient Resource Center - and a recreational marijuana company – Diego Pellicer -- might be teaming up. ...
Alleged pot dealer to kids avoids charges by loophole in law
Seattle police said they are working hard to find a way to arrest Antonio Castillo. He's accused of selling pot to middle and high school kids in Ballard. "We had a situation where someone was actually selling marijuana to children school kids so this is someone we want to be ...
Feds crack down on medical marijuana dispensaries
The Drug Enforcement Administration has ordered 11 medical marijuana dispensaries in the Seattle area to shut down within 30 days. They all received letters advising them that the manufacture and distribution of a controlled substance was illegal under federal law. U.S. law takes precedence over state law allowing the dispensing ...
Burglars strike 3 North Seattle marijuana dispensaries in 2 days
Three break-ins or attempted burglaries at medical marijuana dispensaries have occurred in North Seattle within two days, Seattle police said. Police received their first report of an attempted dispensary burglary shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday after a witness called 911 reporting that he saw two men holding what looked like ...
Prosecutors say they’re handcuffed by new pot law, can’t prosecute any marijuana cases
Right now, King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg says he can’t prosecute any marijuana cases because the new legal recreational pot law changed how marijuana is defined. On Thursday, a state House committee took action in an emergency meeting to change the law, but it might not pass the full House ...
Proposed zoning changes would keep pot business out of top tourist destinations
A zoning proposal in Seattle would keep the commercial marijuana industry out of popular tourist destinations and most neighborhoods. Some city leaders want to restrict where people could grow, sell and buy pot. Pike Place Market, which is one of the top tourist destinations in Seattle, is one place where ...
Seattle police arrest three adults for selling pot to kids
Police arrested three adults on Wednesday for selling marijuana to school-age children. Police said that they received complaints about middle and high school students buying marijuana and marijuana-laced brownies from a residence in the 6700 block of 15th Avenue Northwest earlier this month. Narcotics detectives launched an investigation and detectives observed ...
Hundreds attend 4/20 celebrations throughout Seattle
April 20 is known to be the biggest day of the year for marijuana enthusiasts. After Washington voters legalized recreational marijuana in November, this year’s 4/20 has extra meaning. On Saturday evening, a University District venue, Luxe Nightclub, hosted a 4/20 event. The party was ran by Hempfest, which has ...
Lawmakers consider taxing, tightening policies for medical pot
Big changes could be coming to the medical marijuana industry as lawmakers consider taxing users for their pot, as they will for recreational users. While medical users say taxation would be a hardship for patients, others worry the state could lose millions if lawmakers don’t regulate medical marijuana. With recreational ...
Wash. state to eye rules to ban pot at bars
Washington state officials say it's not OK for bars to allow marijuana use, and they'll take quick steps to address that. The announcement from the state Liquor Control Board on Wednesday followed a recent report by The Associated Press about establishments in Olympia and Tacoma that allow people to consume marijuana ...
New panel will help determine who can grow, sell pot
With the deadline to have marijuana regulations in place eight months away, the state Liquor Control Board announced it picked a Massachusetts-based biotech firm for the marijuana consulting position. The state had 112 submissions for the job, but Botec Analysis Corp. was the winner of the contract. The firm received ...
Wash. picks Mass. firm for pot consultant contract
Washington state has tentatively chosen a Massachusetts-based firm led by a University of California, Los Angeles, professor to be its official marijuana consultant. Botec Analysis Corp. is based in Cambridge, Mass., and has evaluated government programs and provided consulting relating to drug abuse, crime and public health. If the ...
State rep. wants to amend pot law to boost revenue
Though it has only been a few months since Washington state residents were given the right to legally smoke marijuana, at least one state representative already wants to amend the law to boost state revenue. The amendment would allow marijuana businesses to set up within 500 feet of parks, day ...
State legislators want pot sales to fund early learning
Though Washington state’s government does not know if federal authorities will crack down on the state’s new law legalizing marijuana, legislators are already counting on the cash from sales. Lawmakers are considering a bill that would put some of the money from marijuana sales toward schools. The proposed bill would ...
Dozens of pot plants found in public greenspace
Seattle police seized dozens of marijuana plants after King County deputies found them growing in a city park Saturday. The 9-acre Llandover Woods Greenspace, which is part of the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department, is on the Seattle side of the boundary between Seattle and Shoreline near Northwest 145th Street ...
House panel hears bill to tax medical pot sales
A House committee held a public hearing Monday on a measure to tax medical marijuana dispensaries, an effort to undermine any black market when sale of state-taxed recreational marijuana starts at the end of this year. The measure would hit dispensaries with a tax equal to 25 percent of ...
Loophole lets welfare recipients use benefits to buy pot
The same cards the government provides for low-income people are being used to buy medical marijuana. The Electronic Benefits Cards, which look and work similar to debit cards, are supposed to be used for food and to care for children. But some medical marijuana cooperatives are accepting the ...
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