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posted on February 20, 2013 by
US WA: House Panel Hears Bill To Tax Medical-Pot Sales
Seattle Times, 19 Feb 2013 – OLYMPIA (AP) – A House committee held a public hearing Monday on a bill to tax medical-marijuana dispensaries, an effort to undermine any black market when the 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 their sales of cannabis and cannabis-infused products.
posted on February 20, 2013 by
US WA: Foes Speak Against Bill To Tax Medical Marijuana
The Herald, 19 Feb 2013 – OLYMPIA – More than a dozen people, many of them medical marijuana patients or providers, testified Monday against 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 bill, which had a public hearing before the House Finance Committee, would hit dispensaries with a tax equal to 25 percent of their sales of cannabis and cannabis-infused products.
posted on February 17, 2013 by
US WA: Inslee Details State’s Legal Pot Plan In Letter To Feds
The Herald, 15 Feb 2013 – OLYMPIA – Gov. Jay Inslee sent U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder a letter this week detailing the efforts the state is taking as it moves forward with creating rules for a voter-approved legal market for marijuana. Inslee wrote the "the world is watching" both Colorado and Washington as the two states implement last fall’s votes that approved the recreational use of marijuana
posted on February 16, 2013 by
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."
