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Legal, illegal marijuana sales coexist in Colorado

DENVER – A 25-year-old is shot dead trying to sell marijuana the old-fashioned, illegal way. Two men from Texas set up a warehouse to grow more than they would ever need. And three people buying pot in a grocery store parking lot are robbed at gunpoint. While no one expected the state’s first-in-the-nation recreational sales would eliminate the need for dangerous underground sales overnight, the violence has raised concerns among police, prosecutors and pot advocates that a black market for marijuana is alive and well in Colorado.
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Washington to award retail marijuana licenses in May

OLYMPIA – Washington will announce the winners of licenses for its first legal recreational marijuana stores at the beginning of May, after a complicated “double-blind” lottery is held at the end of this month. The first legal sales aren’t likely until the beginning of July, after the lottery winners complete construction, pass final inspection and get their products from state-licensed marijuana farms.
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First Washington pot stores will likely open in July

OLYMPIA – Washington will announce the winners of licenses for its first legal recreational marijuana stores at the beginning of May, after a complicated “double-blind” lottery is held at the end of this month. The first legal sales aren’t likely until the beginning of July, after the lottery winners complete construction, pass final inspection and get their products from state-licensed marijuana farms.
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New laws name state oyster, juvenile rights

OLYMPIA – Children will have to have lawyers before a court can sever their parents’ rights. Juveniles will have more protection against self-incrimination in Washington. Marijuana growers won’t get tax breaks that other farmers get. People who sign local initiative petitions more than once will get one signature counted when the others are thrown out. The state will try to buy products that are free of cancer-causing polychlorinated biphenyls.
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Hemp could be noxious weed, some farmers worry

OLYMPIA – “Weed” is not an official weed, at least not in Washington. So says the state Noxious Weed Control Board, which recently discussed whether various forms of cannabis, from recreational marijuana to industrial hemp, should be considered for its list of plants that need to be controlled.
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Washington lawmakers fail to agree on merging medical, recreational pot systems

OLYMPIA – Washington’s two legal marijuana systems – an older one for medical patients and a new one for “recreational use” by adults – may remain separate at least for another year. Eleventh-hour negotiations on proposals to merge the two broke down Thursday, and legislators said it was unlikely they could be revived in the waning hours of the session.
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State gives first recreational marijuana license to Spokane man

OLYMPIA – Sean Green’s big plans for a nationwide manufacturing and sales empire got a boost Wednesday when the Spokane native received Washington’s first license to grow legal marijuana. Green, who operates medical marijuana dispensaries in Spokane and Shoreline, Wash., will begin growing recreational marijuana today in a facility at 1919 E. Francis Ave.
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Washington’s first pot license going to Spokane man named Green

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state’s first legal marijuana license is going to a guy named Green. The Associated Press has learned that Spokane grower Sean Green, the chief executive of a company called Kouchlock Productions, is due to be issued a producer-processor license at the state Liquor Control Board meeting in Olympia on Wednesday morning.
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273 pot plants seized; alleged grower released from jail

A man suspected of growing 273 pot plants in a Spokane Valley rental home was released from the Spokane County Jail on his own recognizance after a brief court appearance Wednesday. Cole A. Brown, 21, has a limited criminal history of only two misdemeanor charges, said Spokane County Superior Court Judge Greg Sypolt in ordering his release. Brown has been charged with manufacturing a controlled substance.
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Banks shy away from marijuana business despite federal approval

Most banks and credit unions in Washington aren’t ready to open accounts for the state’s fledgling marijuana industry, despite new federal guidelines that offer some protection from prosecution. The Justice and Treasury departments announced earlier this month that banks will be allowed to serve businesses in the two states where marijuana has been legalized, as well as in the other 18 where medical marijuana is sold. Banks currently can’t accept money linked to marijuana sales because the drug is illegal under federal law. As a result, pot has been an all-cash business.
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Liquor board changes rules for marijuana grow license

OLYMPIA – Faced with far more people wanting to grow legal marijuana than state rules would allow, the Washington Liquor Control Board upped more than fivefold the amount of land that can be planted with the drug. But it also put some new restrictions on would-be growers. The board agreed Wednesday to limit applicants to one grower license per business entity, cutting down on the multiple requests some new marijuana entrepreneurs have turned in for as many as three grower licenses. It also reduced the amount of land all requests would be allowed to plant by 30 percent.
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Legal pot to add $190 million to state coffers

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Economic forecasters are predicting that the state’s new legal recreational marijuana market will bring nearly $190 million to state coffers over a four-year period starting in mid-2015.
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Drugs, weapons seized after two drug busts

Heroin, marijuana, cocaine, cash, weapons and a luxury car were seized in busts of two area drug-distribution rings late last week, landing four men behind bars, according to police. Spokane police jailed Andrew Kerr, 19, on Friday. He faces two criminal drug counts after police used an undercover informant to purchase cocaine from him multiple times dating back to September. In a separate bust, three Spokane Valley men were arrested Saturday after members of a local and federal task force discovered heroin prepared for sale at apartments near Mirabeau Meadows.
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EWU professor seeks marijuana growing license

Eastern Washington University history professor Bill Youngs is one of dozens who want to start a marijuana business in Cheney. “I’m certainly not unique at all,” said Youngs, who has applied for a license to produce and process marijuana under Initiative 502.
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Pot extraction method using butane poses hazard

A surge in the production of concentrated marijuana extract is thought to have caused at least three dangerous fires in Spokane County and has local, state and federal officials paying attention. Investigators say a blaze that sent 30 firefighters to an apartment complex in north Spokane last month was likely caused by someone inside using butane in a process to leach the psychoactive element from marijuana. A similar process caused an explosion in a car traveling through the Garland neighborhood in August, burning a 3-year-old’s hands, face and legs and prompting assault and drug charges against 27-year-old Jacob Sayman.
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Spin Control: ‘Marijuana’ racist? Washington Legislature’s silliest moment in 2014

With more than 100 bills addressing marijuana this session, it may be no surprise the silliest thing said so far has involved this topic. Granted, we’re only a third of the way through the session, and a huge amount of silliness may lie ahead. But it will be hard for anyone to top a point being raised with great conviction – albeit not much thought – at several recent hearings on marijuana bills:
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Lawmakers consider options to community bans on pot sales

OLYMPIA – Washington legislators are trying to decide whether to offer a carrot or use a stick against local governments that don’t want to let recreational marijuana businesses set up shop inside their borders. The carrot: Offering up some of the taxes those businesses will be required to pay the state as the drug moves from harvest to sale.
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