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Should Seattleites Be Allowed to Grow Their Own Marijuana?

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“When home grows are allowed it makes enforcement by anyone extremely difficult… Keep it how it is. Let the state control it.”

—Mitch Barker, executive director of the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs
 

“I think, most importantly, because we are in a world where we’re trying to keep our legalization system in place under a Jeff Sessions Justice Department, that now is not the time to move forward with home grows.”

—John Schochet, deputy city attorney of Seattle 

“We are in support of home grows, and the reason for it kind of gets down to what we believe [they] can do for the industry: …help grow a more sophisticated market space.”

—Lara Kaminsky, executive director of the Cannabis Alliance

“The [board] should just tell the Legislature, ‘Yeah, it’s feasible,’ and then let the Legislature worry about it…. It’s kind of insane that a regulatory agency constructed to regulate businesses is somehow tasked with regulating responsible adults in their own home.”

—Kevin Oliver, executive director of Washington National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws

Published in the 100 Years of Seattle Activism issue of Seattle Met.











Jaime Archer
Jaime Archer
Jaime Archer is a California native who grew up in the Bay Area and studied history at Reed College in Portland before landing at Seattle Met as an editorial intern. After a brief stint as a reporter at The Daily News in Longview, Washington, she rejoined Seattle Met as digital editor, and now oversees its website, newsletters, and social media accounts. She lives in Capitol Hill with her trusty cat Scully.