Washington's top marijuana advisor steps down
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The veteran bureaucrat who helped implement Washington's marijuana law is stepping down.
Randy Simmons, deputy director of the Washington Liquor Control Board, told Seattle Times staff writer Bob Young that this year's difficult legislative session played a factor in his decision. Battles erupted over the plan to fold the state's mostly unregulated medical marijuana industry into the regulated retail one.
"It was a hard legislative session. I felt tired of all the battles going on," said Simmons, who is leaving the LCB at the end of August to take a senior administrator's job at the state Department of Revenue.
The nascent industry seemed to change after stores opened last summer, he said.
"With people hiring lobbyists, it shifted from 'let's do something exciting' to like everything else in...
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