License Trolling and Indoor Growing Most people who need to or want to, have read all forty-six pages of the Washington Liquor Control Board’s, LCB’s, proposed rules for implementation of Washington State’s recreational cannabis law. First, so much for the regulators dropping the derogatory term marijuana for the proper, scientific name of the plant, cannabis. More »

Liquor Control Board Director Garza Rick Garza got the LCB director job. As hinted here last week, this is a logical and good choice for the cannabis rule-creation agency. Garza brings experience, Olympia insider status, and a good working relationship with the Guv. He raised a few screams when, during a House hearing, he claimed More »

What Is A Commodity Clearinghouse? For centuries commodities have been sold and distributed via auction or clearinghouse. The tuna auctions in Tokyo and the tulip auctions in Holland still exist in their purest form. The New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, not surprisingly, evolved to become much more… but have the very More »

LCB Director Gone In The Night, Why? Washington State Liquor Control Board, LCB, the agency responsible for implementation of I-502 has lost it’s Director. Just at a time when the LCB needs all the continuity and leadership it can muster either the Director said she had had enough, or the Governor asked her to take More »

Rules Should Confirm Awareness of Property Holdings? In their May second letter to the Liquor Control Board, LCB, Representatives Takko and Blake urge the LCB to require applicants for recreational cannabis licenses to actually have control of the facilities to carry out the provisions of the license. The formal transmittal from the Pacific County Legislative More »

Federal Cloud And The IRS If you follow Washington and Colorado’s march to mainstream, recreational use cannabis law implementation you read all about how big business is moving in, or the fears from the established medical marijuana, MMJ, community that big business might move in. No matter who moves in, or what happens to the More »

More A Business StartUp and Operation Seminar A show of hands revealed an attendance orientation that belied the attire and sophistication of the questions asked during a six hour legal seminar on I-502 and all things cannabis. Over half the audience were not lawyers, and they were attending to learn about their ongoing businesses of More »

LCB Chair, LCB Staff, Rules, Insurance, Taxes, Mayor McGinn What: “I-502 Implications for Cannabis in Washington State” Seminar When: April 26, 2013, 9:00AM Where: Hotel 1000 — Seattle, WA The seminar will cover topics including current penalties stemming from violations of I-502, how the initiative is designed to fend off a Federal attack, and exactly More »

Another Cannabis Bill Headed Where? Sitting there this morning on the introduction sheet like a lone attempt to solve a major problem was HB 2056. The measure, the product of bi-partisan leadership of the House Government Oversight and Accountability Committee, Hurst-D and Condotta-R, attempts to make a very technical amendment to the definition of tetrahydrocannabinol, More »