What Needs to Change to Maximize Marijuana's Benefits to Washington Residents?
One billion dollars.
If current trends keep up, that will be the value of marijuana retail and producer/processor sales in Washington state on a yearly basis. With few exceptions, state marijuana sales have risen every month since the first recreational stores opened two years ago, bringing millions in state taxes and thousands of jobs.
That’s the good news.
“The picture thus far is a curate’s egg — good in parts,” writes University of Washington professor emeritus Roger Roffman. “No policy change of this magnitude will go precisely according to plan.”
So what still needs fixing?
The Washington State Institute for Public Policy won’t release its first Legislature-mandated report until September 2017, since it wrote last year that “not enough time has passed … to draw any cause-and-effect conclusions.”
Next year’s study will look at substance use, health, traffic safety, criminal justice, education and workplace safety and productivity. Until then: “Effects...
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