Yakima Herald-Republic, 10 Mar 2013 – Initiative 502, the marijuana-legalization measure that Washington state voters approved last November, spelled out a number of ways to implement what is now the law. For example, I-502 sets up a three-tier system of marijuana producer, processor and retailer; determines taxes to be collected at each level; defines limits on possession amounts and thresholds for intoxication; and so on. That the measure was relatively tightly drawn, especially compared with a legalization initiative in Oregon last fall, is one reason why it passed here but failed down there. But Washington’s initiative left many of the critical details to the state Liquor Control Board, which on Feb. 28 conducted a well-attended meeting in Yakima on the matter.
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