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Fate of legal marijuana up in air after Senate confirms Sen. Sessions as attorney general
By the end of this week, Washington’s multimillion-dollar recreational marijuana industry may be targeted for federal crackdown.
Grow-your-own bills for Washington marijuana get support in hearing
Home-grown marijuana rules would be loosened under two House bills.
Post-election, pot is one toke over the stateline for most of Idaho…
Idaho is an island of abstinence on the legal weed frontier. The state shares 77 percent of its border with pot-friendly states, made even friendlier Tuesday with victories for looser …
Sunday Spin 3: More states voting on legalized pot
Other states could be joining Washington on pot legalization.
Marijuana still has no medical value, DEA says
DEA says it won’t take marijuana off national list of most dangerous drugs.
DEA to WA: Pot has no medical uses
DEA rejects Washington request to reclassify marijuana for medical uses.
Washington flips the switch on a new medical marijuana system
Washington’s new medical marijuana laws take effect Friday, meaning medical dispensaries will close and many recreational stores will expand into that market.
Marijuana patient sues state after daughter develops MRSA in foster care
Medical marijuana patient, denied custody of daughter, sues state agency after she contracts serious illness in foster care.
Four Idaho kids have qualified to take marijuana-derived epilepsy drug
Four Idaho children are now taking a drug derived from marijuana to treat severe epilepsy under a limited state program, Idaho lawmakers learned Monday, and 18 more kids are being …
State could get 222 more pot stores
OLYMPIA — Washington will likely increase the number of retail marijuana stores to 556, to handle the demand for medical marijuana licenses.
State could have 222 more new pot stores
OLYMPIA — Washington will likely increase the number of retail marijuana stores to 556, to handle the demand for medical marijuana licenses.
Coming Tuesday: Medical Marijuana hearing
State Liquor and Cannabis Board will be at Spokane Convention Center Tuesday night.
After veto, Idaho moves to allow 25 sick kids access to cannabis-derived drug
After veto, Idaho moves to allow 25 sick kids access to cannabis-derived drug
After veto, Idaho moves to allow 25 sick kids access to cannabis-derived drug
Idaho is just weeks away from enrolling up to 25 children with severe epilepsy in a free program to provide them with an experimental, non-psychoactive drug extracted from marijuana, under …
WSLCB: New name, new laws, same acronym
OLYMPIA — The state Liquor Control Board officially becomes the Liquor and Cannabis Board today.
Medical marijuana referendum won’t be on Washington ballot
OLYMPIA – Washington voters won’t be asked this fall if they want to keep changes made this spring to the state’s medical marijuana laws. Organizers of a petition drive to …
Medical marijuana law won’t be on ballot
OLYMPIA — An effort to give voters a chance to reject changes to the state’s medical marijuana laws has failed. Supporters of a referendum to put it on the November …
Senate passes pot tax bill
OLYMPIA – Changes to the state’s marijuana taxes and the way they will be spent received final approval from the Senate and were sent to Gov. Jay Inslee Saturday. After …
State House approves taxes on medical marijuana
OLYMPIA – Medical marijuana patients would pay many of the same taxes as recreational pot users under a bill approved Friday by the House. On a 59-38 vote, the House …
Kettle Falls Five sentencing hearing delayed to October
Members of a family who grew medical marijuana on their farm near Kettle Falls will wait until October to learn whether they will spend time in federal prison. U.S. District …
Washington Legislature wraps up – for now
OLYMPIA – A few hours before the gavel came down on the regular session, Gov. Jay Inslee signed one of the most-discussed laws, one that brings medical marijuana under much …
WALeg Day 103: Inslee signs medical marijuana bill
OLYMPIA— Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill that will blend the state’s medical marijuana system into state oversight that currently covers the recreational pot businesses.
Washington Senate OKs marijuana regulation changes
OLYMPIA – A major revision to the state’s marijuana laws, blending the medical and recreational systems and setting up a voluntary registry for adult patients, overwhelmingly passed the Senate on …
Senate passes medical marijuana changes
OLYMPIA – A major revision to the state’s marijuana laws that blends the medical and recreational systems and sets up a voluntary registry for adult patients, overwhelmingly passed the Senate …
WaLeg Day 89: House begins debate on pot bills
After spending most of the day in caucus, the House began debating the first of three marijuana bills, the Cannabis Patient Protection Act, about 4:25 p.m. We’ll follow it live …
Washington lawmakers study marijuana rules
OLYMPIA – Leading the way for legalized marijuana nationally doesn’t mean just anything goes in Washington when it comes to pot. Instead, it provides a springboard into new questions for …
WaLeg Day 71: Pot vending machines? Drive-thru sales? Research licenses?
OLYMPIA — Pot again provided legislators with plenty to talk about.
Pot lounges among marijuana issues lawmakers asked to consider
OLYMPIA – As legislators worked this week to blend the state’s recreational and medical marijuana laws, Spokane Valley officials asked them to consider one more wrinkle in the rapidly changing …
Valley asks for rules against marijuana “lounges”
OLYMPIA – As legislators worked this week to blend the state’s recreational and medical marijuana laws, Spokane Valley officials asked them to consider one more wrinkle in the rapidly changing …
Kettle Falls Five reduced to three
The Kettle Falls Five marijuana collective has been reduced to three this week after one of the defendants in the federal criminal case cut an eleventh-hour plea deal with prosecutors. …
Medical marijuana revisions proposed
OLYMPIA – Major changes to the state’s largely unregulated medical marijuana industry passed the Senate after sponsors beat back a challenge to requirements for a patient database and a plea …
Senate passes medical marijuana changes
OLYMPIA — Major changes to the state’s medical marijuana laws passed the Senate today despite critics’ complaints about a database for patients.