Month: March 2017

After three years of legal retail cannabis I expected a lot of interesting bills in the legislature this year. Apparently, folk in Washington are satisfied with their system as there are not any game changers in the works. The State itself seems most interested in maximizing tax revenues from it's primary cannabis tax collection agency, the retail stores. There are 486 retail licenses issued in WA, but only about 300 are actually in operation...

This weekend the Cannabis Cup (a large outdoor pot party that moves around the country) will be held in Nevada (which is quickly bringing up it's retail system), on the lands of the Paiute tribe (Who, like all Natives, are stuck in legal limbo regarding cannabis), under a new administration which is opaque right now on the whole topic, but the US Attorney for the region has warned that the whole thing is illegal. I'll be watching how this works,...