Washington

Mon
16
Nov

Washington: Marijuana stores busted for selling to minors

The Washington Liquor and Cannabis Board says a Prosser marijuana store was busted for selling to a minor just over a month after it opened.

The Tri-City Herald reports that the Bake Shop was among seven businesses in Yakima and the Tri-Cities that sold marijuana or alcohol to underage investigative aides working with officers during an October sting.

Seven others did not sell to minors.

Fines or temporary license suspensions can be issued to businesses that fail compliance checks.

The Bake Shop became Benton County's second recreational marijuana retailer when it opened in September.

Mon
16
Nov

Washington: Marijuana stores busted for selling to minors

The Washington Liquor and Cannabis Board says a Prosser marijuana store was busted for selling to a minor just over a month after it opened.

The Tri-City Herald reports that the Bake Shop was among seven businesses in Yakima and the Tri-Cities that sold marijuana or alcohol to underage investigative aides working with officers during an October sting.

Seven others did not sell to minors.

Fines or temporary license suspensions can be issued to businesses that fail compliance checks.

The Bake Shop became Benton County's second recreational marijuana retailer when it opened in September.

Fri
13
Nov

Cannabis: Weeding out big deficits

What does our nation’s capital Washington D.C., Alaska, Washington, Oregon and Colorado have in common? Their economy is rapidly growing due to a huge spark in the use of recreational marijuana. Among the most common, Colorado, there are four other areas where the recreational use of the plant is legal. Since then, four out of the five areas discluding Alaska, fall onto MSN’s top ten best economies in the country. There are also 18 other states that have legalized the medicinal use of cannabis as well.

Wed
11
Nov

Chris Kelly: Bringing Medical-Grade Extracts to the Recreational Market

Chris Kelly is the Vice President and General Manager of Landrace Labs, a cannabis production company serving Washington State’s recreational market. He is also the founder and former CEO of Green Lion Farms, a medical cannabis company based in Seattle. Landrace produces high-quality CO2 extracts as well as flowers and pre-filled vape cartridges that are for sale in retail shops within the state.

“Adopt a winning team mentality, be a professional, and treat this like the billion dollar industry that it is.”

Mon
09
Nov

Fore Twenty Harvest Tournament Celebrates Legalization of Marijuana in Northwest

An amateur tournament is taking place today in southern Oregon, and even if the greens and fairways aren’t perfect, we can guarantee the grass is good.

Billed as a celebration of marijuana legalization in the Pacific Northwest, the second annual Fore Twenty Harvest Tournament at Cougar Canyon Golf Course is expected to draw scores of business owners and employees from the growing cannabis industry for a day of schmoozing on the links.

 

Aside from offering a chance to hobnob, the event also aims to dispel the widespread image of marijuana users as Spicoli-like slackers whose ambitions revolve largely around late-night snacks.

Thu
05
Nov

LED technology courts pot growers

SEATTLE -- Seattle currently has 17 marijuana grow operations. There are 107 more waiting for approval. If all of them start using Seattle's power grid to light up their plants, it would add more than 100-million kilowatt hours of demand.

That's equal to powering 12,288 single family homes or four buildings the size of the Columbia Center.

It's budding new ideas among growers, now turning to LED.

"You could target the kind of light the plant wants," said David Bajorins.

Bajorins is director of operations for CSA Seattle. They test LED technology and recently expanded as business grows. Part of that growth is horticulture.

New LED options offer specific light for specific plant results.

Thu
05
Nov

What’s the Most Popular Form of Cannabis in Your State?

Which form of cannabis is most prevalent on the dispensary menus in your state?

Wed
04
Nov

FEDERAL RESEARCHERS STUDY WASHINGTON CANNABIS FARM

In an unprecedented move, federal researchers visited a medical cannabis farm in Vancouver, Washington to gauge the health impacts of working in the industry and performing tasks such as cultivation and processing. Does the repetitive motion of trimming marijuana flowers promote carpal tunnel? Are those processing dozens of pounds of freshly harvested cannabis, over the long term, in danger of inhaling plant particles that may be harmful to their health?

Fri
30
Oct

State report examines marijuana-positive drivers in deadly crashes

OLYMPIA, Wash.— When recreational marijuana became legal in the state, some feared there would be more people driving high and causing deadly crashes. A new report from the Washington Traffic Safety Commission says some of those fears may have been justified.

This is the first time the state has looked at how pot has impacted traffic safety in this detail. It looks at how many marijuana-positive drivers were involved in deadly crashes.

Staci Hoff, research director for the Washington Traffic Safety Commission, says for the first time the state has data that differentiates drivers who had residual marijuana in their system versus active levels of THC.

Tue
27
Oct

Quantified Self: MyDx Targets a Growing Multi-Billion Dollar Industry

SEATTLE, WA / ACCESSWIRE / October 27, 2015 / The quantified self movement has been rapidly expanding over the past several years, as consumers embrace its "if you can measure it, you can change it" principles. According to IHS, the global market for wearables and sensors will rise to 210 million units shipped and $30 billion in revenue by 2018, while companies like FitBit Inc. FIT, +7.91% and Apple Inc. AAPL, -0.85% are already making millions of dollars each quarter selling early-stage technology.

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