Seattle Times, 20 Jun 2013 – Outdoor Growing, New Logo Suggested Allowing Hashish Sales Also Mentioned Often Allow outdoor pot growing and don’t ban the sale of hash and hash oil.

Seattle Times, 13 Jun 2013 – NEW LAW | Public-Health Advocates and Others Want Tough Rules to Limit Youth Access to Recreational Marijuana. and They Say the State Can Learn From Restrictions on Alcohol and Tobacco Marketing and Successful Strategies Used to Persuade Kids Not to Smoke Don’t expect kids to have a lot easier access to pot under the state’s new law allowing adults to possess an ounce of marijuana.

Seattle Times, 31 May 2013 – Ex-Mexican President Praises Shively’s Pot Effort Vicente Fox, former president of Mexico, praised local entrepreneur Jamen Shively’s vision for a legal pot business reaching across the U.S. and perhaps beyond its borders.

Seattle Times, 30 May 2013 – The lack of size limits on marijuana growing operations in the state have some fearing that "Big Bud" will squelch small growers. But others see plenty of opportunity for everyone, pointing to the beer business. In initial rules for a legal marijuana system, state officials did not cap the number of growing licenses they would issue later this year, trying to give small growers a chance to get a toehold in the emerging industry.

Seattle Times, 23 May 2013 – Large Indoor Farms Limited to Certain Industrial Areas Rules Would Allow Operations As Big As a Football Field Indoor pot-growing operations as large as a football field would be allowed in some Seattle industrial areas under new zoning approved Wednesday by a City Council committee.

Seattle Times, 17 May 2013 – Getting Ready State Officials Give a Taste of What’s To Come by Releasing a Preliminary Draft of the Legal-Marijuana Plan, but Refinements Are Expected Washington residents and out-of-staters could buy an ounce of tested, labeled marijuana, seven days a week, up to 20 hours a day, in state-regulated stores under draft rules for a new legal-pot system released Thursday by the Liquor Control Board.

Seattle Times, 12 May 2013 – Indoor Production Requires Megapower Some Growers Push for Using Sun Instead Marijuana growing is not a green industry.

Seattle Times, 02 May 2013 – Dispensaries Located Too Close to Prohibited Areas, Agency Says Cease-and-desist letters were sent to 11 Seattle-area pot dispensaries because they are within 1,000 feet of schools or other prohibited areas, according to the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

Seattle Times, 07 Apr 2013 – Wide Open Vs. Regulated Legislature Eyes More Rules for Medical Pot to Avoid Sapping Recreational Sales In a nondescript Seattle building, with a strip-mall Starbucks across the street, dozens of marijuana plants sway under electric fans in 79.5-degree warmth, their limbering, strength-building version of hot yoga. In Washington’s marijuana policy hothouse, where views are balkanized, pot advocates are divided about what – if anything – needs to be done about medical weed.

Seattle Times, 04 Apr 2013 – Hazy Marijuana Law Steps Taken After 2 Area Venues Allow Marijuana Smoking The state Liquor Control Board voted Wednesday to start making rules aimed at stopping the consumption of marijuana in bars.