Seattle Times, 19 Jun 2013 – Muraco Kyashna-Tocha started the Green Buddha marijuana dispensary in an unlabeled Seattle storefront in 2008. In 2009, she applied for a business license. In 2010, she began paying taxes and, in 2012, she passed a tax audit. She says, "And I expect to shut in April 2014" when the stores for the public are open for business.

Seattle Times, 30 Jan 2013 – Monday night, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn met marijuana entrepreneurs at the Washington Athletic Club. He wished them success. The mood was euphoric. But he and other officials are also sounding notes of caution. The chairman of the Washington State Liquor Control Board, Sharon Foster, promises "lots of controls, regulation and enforcement."

Seattle Times, 10 Oct 2012 – The arguments for Initiative 502, the ballot measure to legalize and tax marijuana for general adult use, are remarkably impersonal. People make health arguments, economic arguments and legal arguments. Who will say, "I just want to smoke it"?

Seattle Times, 14 Sep 2010 – Marijuana is moving toward legalization. Fourteen states now allow it as medicine, which has changed people’s view of it. The image of a user is no longer Cheech and Chong, but grandma. "The states that were the first to legalize medical marijuana will be the first to legalize marijuana more broadly," predicts cannabis activist Ethan Nadelman of the Drug Policy Alliance.