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05-17-2013, 12:44 AM

This guy is starting to get it

Black Market Elimination Fail: Draft Pot Rules Call for Ban on Hash and Hash Oil
Posted by Ben Livingston on Thu, May 16, 2013

This morning the liquor board posted these draft rules for implementing Initiative 502, the cannabis legalization initiative passed by voters last fall. And the big shocker: The draft rules call for a ban on retail sales of hash, hash oil, and other concentrates...

..."That's a terrible decision," says dispensary operator Eugene, who preferred we not publish his last name or business name for fear of receiving a DEA letter. "We are kinda known for our bubble hash around here." Eugene tells me that hash is "decent part of our business," with 20-40 percent of customers interested in concentrates at some point...

...It's similar to how the legislature is now attempting to force medical cannabis into the I-502 process, raising the ire of activists who warned of the very same thing. Like the IRS focusing on Tea Party nonprofits, which makes the Tea Party hardliners sound less crazy when squawking about about government conspiracies, our state government is making the concerns of anti-legalization potheads sound more and more reasonable.

"I don't think recreational [cannabis] is going to be what people expect," says dispensary operator Eugene. "For many people in Seattle who've been connoisseurs, it's going to be tough for them to go to recreational stores."

Good job, liquor board, for failing to tackle the black market by narrowly interpreting the word "contain." I guess I'll continue to get my hash on the black market...

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/05/16/black-market-elimination-fail-draft-pot-rules-call-for-ban-on-hash-and-hash-oil

Many people are just starting to learn what was in 502. It will be fun to see the reactions. Of course, many people are still insisting Washington "legalized pot".

And how about those recent landlord letters that went out during the Benghazi blowup?

If anyone still thinks the Feds are going to allow WA to open stores, well they just haven't been paying attention.

502 was a ClusterF :

"I can't believe the idiots who think we have "legalization" now and are perfectly happy to accept that hash possession will now be a crime. Are you all friggin NUTS? I don't care if YOU go to jail, but I certainly care that a patient with cancer, using Rick Simpson oil to treat it, goes to state prison because he's now using a "concentrate"...

YOU voted for this SH**....we knew better. We actually READ I-502.

Steve Sarich
Cannabis Action Coalition