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  Medical Marijuana in Seattle Faces Closure Deadline, Hopes for Extension

  March 26, 2014 at 4:25 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  A Seattle deadline requiring medical marijuana collectives in the city to be licensed by the state before Jan. 1, 2015, or shut down has suddenly become a big problem … because there is no state license available to collectives. When the state Legislature failed earlier this month to pass any bill regulating the medical marijuana market in Washington,  Seattle zoning law suddenly took on new importance. A Seattle zoning rule passed in October states: “A ‘licensed marijuana business establishment’ … is a business establishment [...]

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  World-famous Cannabis Farmers Market Reopens in Seattle

  October 8, 2013 at 7:48 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  Outside 7 Point Studios more than 2,000 cannabis patients lined the sidewalk to celebrate the grand re-opening of the Cannabis Farmers Market. Most patients were from out-of-town, as the Cannabis Farmers Market was forced by city officials to close its original location in Tacoma. The market was closed for about a month, and now the owners have purchased a Seattle business license, and say this is where they plan to stay. “For 38 days we had patients calling, vendors calling [...]

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  War on Marijuana Returns with Federal Crackdown on Seattle Dispensaries

  May 7, 2013 at 9:30 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  After a several month long cease-fire, the War on Marijuana has reignited in Washington, with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) ordering 11 Seattle-area medical marijuana dispensaries to shut down within 30 days. Despite November’s voter-approved Initiative 502, which legalized marijuana for all adults 21 or over in the state of Washington, and 1998′s voter-approved Measure 692, which legalized medical marijuana in the state, the 11 dispensaries received letters from the DEA advising them that distribution of marijuana was illegal under federal law, and they [...]

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