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Slog: Medical Pot Bill Cued Up in State Senate
The Stranger has the news
that State Sen. Jean Kohl-Welles (D-36, Ballard, Queen Anne, Magnolia) is planning to propose legislation to allow medical marijuana dispensaries:
UPDATE: Kohl-Welles isn't only championing pot. She's also championing booze. As we reported in Fizz this morning, she sponsoring legislation to make wine and beer tasting legal at farmers' markets—at least as a pilot project. Kohl-Welles says that shoppers would be able to taste a limited amount of Washington wine and beer sold at a limited number of Farmers Markets.
Similar pilot projects have already bee established at all large groceries.
The bill does have the backing of at least one powerful voice in WAPA. King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg intends to urge the group to support the bill, calling it “an improvement on the vague and unworkable statute that we now have.”
“It would be better to have [dispensaries] licensed and regulated,” he says. ...
One way to help the medicine go down would be the state-run registry, which law-enforcement groups have historically supported because it would allow them to easily distinguish between a legal patient and a recreational user. “I think the registry helps on a number of patient-identity fronts, but it does not directly tie to accountability of supply distribution by dispensaries,” says McBride.
UPDATE: Kohl-Welles isn't only championing pot. She's also championing booze. As we reported in Fizz this morning, she sponsoring legislation to make wine and beer tasting legal at farmers' markets—at least as a pilot project. Kohl-Welles says that shoppers would be able to taste a limited amount of Washington wine and beer sold at a limited number of Farmers Markets.
Similar pilot projects have already bee established at all large groceries.
