Washington State’s experiment with medical marijuana paved way for legalization
The decision by Washington voters to legalize marijuana as medicine took root in the fall of 1998 — the season when Initiative 692 became law.
That makes the state’s experiment with legal medical marijuana almost 18 years old, a tumultuous age for humans and, as it turns out, an industry being forced to go legit as the state folds medical pot into the regulated system for recreational marijuana Friday.
The pot dispensaries and the green crosses that marked many of those stores are going away as the state works to regulate the dispensaries’ share of the market — a market variously described by its detractors as “gray” and having the traits of “the wild West.”
Dispensary owners, their employees, and the growers and processors who supply the dispensaries have been forced to figure out what to do next.
While medical marijuana will remain in a state-sanctioned and regulated form, a...
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