Seattle Times, 05 Mar 2013 – The state received so many bids for the new position of marijuana consultant that officials are delaying the announcement of a winner. Liquor Control Board spokesman Mikhail Carpenter says there were 98 applications for the job, which entails advising the board on rules governing the state’s new legal marijuana industry. Voters last fall passed Initiative 502, which legalized up to an ounce of marijuana for adults 21 and over and called for a system of state-licensed growers, processors and retailers.
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US WA: Ex-DEA Heads, U.N. Panel Urge U.S. to Nullify Pot Laws
Seattle Times, 06 Mar 2013 – Eight former U.S. drug chiefs warned the federal government Tuesday that time is running out to nullify Washington and Colorado’s new laws legalizing recreational marijuana use, and they want a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday to question Attorney General Eric Holder on his plans. The federal government still considers marijuana an illegal drug with no medical value, like heroin. Holder recently said his decision on how to respond to legal marijuana for adult use in the two states is imminent.
posted on February 22, 2013 by
US WA: In Our View: Legalized Pot Plot Thickens
The Columbian, 21 Feb 2013 – Questions about taxation further complicate unprecedented saga As members of the Washington State Liquor Control Board continue to feel their way down the dark tunnel of marijuana legalization, they keep bumping into more questions than answers. A crowd of 450-plus people showed up for a public forum in Spokane on Tuesday, and the "what-ifs" vastly outnumbered rational solutions. It was one of the largest turnouts in the continuing series of WSLCB meetings, which visited Vancouver on Feb. 7.
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US WA: Editorial: Drug Tests For Welfare Recipients A Bad Idea
Seattle Times, 16 Feb 2013 – DURING the great welfare-reform debate of 1996, Republican leadership in Congress sought mandatory drug testing for recipients as a controversial but core plank of their plan to give each state flexibility to design its own path from welfare to work. They lost that battle, but won their larger goal – ending welfare as an entitlement – when President Clinton signed the landmark legislation.
posted on February 15, 2013 by
US WA: Bill Outlines What To Do When Pot Is Dropped
The Herald, 12 Feb 2013 – OLYMPIA (AP) – Lawmakers in Olympia are considering an oddly specific proposal about marijuana. A bill introduced by Democratic Rep. Christopher Hurst of Enumclaw and Republican Rep. Terry Nealey of Dayton would set out steps for the "proper disposal of legal amounts of marijuana inadvertently left at retail stores holding a pharmacy license."
