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The song “Cat’s in the Cradle” plays softly in the background as a white-bearded Eric Zeid unscrews the lid of a glass jar filled with marijuana.
Zeid is sitting behind his desk at his medical dispensary Swinging Bridges in Alger. He’s giving a consultation to disabled Navy veteran Jamie Bussiere.
“How are you today, my friend?” Zeid asks Bussiere.
Bussiere suffers from neck pain and arthritis. He smokes marijuana to ease the pain and prefers it to prescription drugs.
Medical marijuana has been legal in the state since 1998. Unlike recreational marijuana, which was legalized in 2012, medical marijuana is unregulated.
That’s about to change.
Gov. Jay Inslee signed the Cannabis Patient Protection Act into law in April. By July 1, medical marijuana dispensaries as they are known today will no longer exist.
Medical dispensaries will have to either apply for a retail license — and apply to keep their...
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