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Seattle council OKs plan to close medical-marijuana businesses

Submitted by Marijuana News on Mon, 07/13/2015 - 23:14

The Seattle City Council approved a plan to shut down medical marijuana businesses that have opened since January 2013.

Green cross signs will become more scarce in Seattle under a plan adopted by the City Council Monday.

The city will force medical-marijuana businesses that opened Jan. 1, 2013, or later to shut down by next July as part of a new licensing plan proposed by Mayor Ed Murrayand approved by the council in a unanimous vote.

 

A rash of new medical-marijuana shops have opened since the start of 2013, just after voters legalized adult possession of an ounce or less of pot through Initiative 502.

Some in the legal pot business and City Hall view those newcomers — who make up roughly half of Seattle’s 99 medical marijuana dispensaries — as profiteers trying to capitalize on the more liberal state law and the city’s lax attitude toward pot...

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