Washington issues medical-marijuana endorsements, fast-tracks new applications

State government has in recent weeks stamped 142 retail marijuana licenses with a medical endorsement that will let them cater to patients come July 1.

The value of an endorsement for the roughly 65 percent of pot shops who have received one won’t be fully known, though, until more rules are set for Washington’s newly consolidated medical and recreational marijuana system. 

“If it did come to fruition, we could significantly expand our business,” said Jim Sulton, owner of one of the stores with an endorsement, A Bud and Leaf in Olympia. 

Today, he said, he’s limited by restrictions surrounding Washington’s 2012 legalization of recreational marijuana. “We can’t say this will cure this or this will help alleviate that,” he said.

The slew of endorsements is a sign that patients wanting to medicate with marijuana are likely to have options no matter where they live in the state, regardless of what...

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