WA.State Liquor Control Board Holds Lottery For Pot Shop Applicants In April

[The General]

People in Washington could see recreational marijuana stores open their doors this summer. Washington State Liquor Control Board member and former State Senator Chris Marr spoke about Initiative 502 at Washington State University's Foley Institute Thursday afternoon. Marr said now that the state has established a set of rules, they could start issuing licenses to producers within the next few weeks, which could be an interesting process.

"There's no such thing as legal marijuana, what do you do?" said Marr. "Well what we decided to do is on the day you, the producer, get your license, you have 15 days to bring plants or seeds into your system. We really don't want to know where they came from. We just want them to be registered in the system." Producers will have to trace their product using a system to medical marijuana producers. Every plant will have its own bar code, and it'll be scanned every time product is removed. In April, they plan to hold a retail license lottery for all the applicants that want to open up a pot shop. The board plans on issuing more than 300 licenses to retailers, but they've already received more then 2,000 applications. Marr said recreational marijuana stores could open as early as June.

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[Bonehead]

Lottery??? Don't you want the best operators instead of being lucky?

 

[ryno]

This entire process has been one big cluster fuck. The people in charge of the program in this state obviously have very little idea what they are doing. Gross original underestimates for statewide consumption as evidenced by the state-funded independant survey late last year indicate volatile market conditions once retails sales commence. This will likely cause the black market producers to flourish, a totally counterproductive and avoidable consequence, in my opinion. Of course, the blame could be more squarely placed upon the federal goverment for dragging its feet on rescheduling cannabis in the first place. I suspect that Mr. Holder has had more pressing matters at hand in trying to save his job and cover all the scandals. Poor bastard.