Shit Just Got Real, Stoners!
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You’ve heard of Gallup, right?
The leading opinion pollster in the United States has been tracking attitudes toward marijuana legalization since 1969, when a mere 12 percent of Americans supported it. That figure crept up to 31 percent by 2001. Then last year, Gallup reported that the country was roughly split.
And now?
“For the first time,” a giddy Gallup said on October 22, a clear majority of Americans believe that marijuana should be legal. HOLY FUCKING SHIT: Fifty-eight percent of people support legalization. That’s a 19-point lead over those who think it should be illegal.
I don’t want to belabor this point—wait, yes, I do want to belabor this point. I want to belabor the shit out of this point because it’s a goddamn wonderful point: Going from an even split to a 19-point lead in one year is a gigantic, rapid leap.
This is obviously the result of Colorado and Washington State legalizing pot last fall. Attitudes probably changed because the sky didn’t fall after those states did that, and just having a national debate about legalization helped more folks warm up to legalization (just as ballot mea-
sures have done for gay marriage).
But I think there’s another, maybe even bigger, impact of two states legalizing pot.
People now see that legalizing pot is possible. Legalization had seemed impossible because it wasn’t happening. And now that Team Legalize is winning, people want to join the winning team. It’s mainstream. And that means we’re closer to stopping roughly 750,000 marijuana arrests every year in the United States.
Plus, the Obama administration declared over the summer that the marijuana industry may proceed without a federal challenge here and in Colorado. That’s giving business owners the green light to open up shop. In this edition of The Stranger’s Green Guide, we interview folks opening those businesses and talk to people who can’t wait to light up come June, when pot stores open. Meanwhile, we turn a hairy eyeball toward the absolutely outof-line politicians who are trying to gut our medical marijuana law. And we take up the question: What’s going to happen to the stoner counterculture now that pot is mainstream? This is new territory we’re entering.
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The Pioneers
The Entrepreneurs Risking Everything to Sell You the State’s First Legal Pot
BY BEN LIVINGSTON
Three years ago, local businessman Ian Eisenberg bought a defunct restaurant and a car wash at 23rd Avenue and East Union Street, a key junction in Seattle’s Central District. “I kept complaining that somebody needs to do something to clean it up,” he recalls. “The car wash had a chain-link fence, and the Philly [cheesesteak] shop was boarded up.”
Now Eisenberg has plans for a pot shop on those properties—or other parcels he bought nearby. But why place a pot store there? The intersection has a notorious history of open-air drug sales, gang violence, and failing businesses.
When the City of Seattle released maps earlier this year showing where pot businesses could open in compliance with the strict zoning requirements in Initiative 502, which legalized recreational marijuana last fall, most of the city was offlimits. But 23rd and Union, it turns out, is one of the few pockets of town more than 1,000 feet from a school, park, library, or recreation center— meaning Eisenberg had unknowingly bought some of the hottest properties in town to open a marijuana retail store.
“I just want to make sure it’s done correctly, that it’s done nicely,” says Eisenberg, a real-estate investor and co-owner of a natural soft drink company who got his business start running adult phone chat lines in the 1990s.
But Eisenberg isn’t certain where he will obtain the products. He explains, “It’s not like if you open up a liquor store, you go to Southern Wine & Spirits. I assume they’ll put out a list of people.”
On that list could be Shawn DeNae, who, along with her husband, Bill, hopes to grow and process cannabis. They are currently closing a deal for a property that complies with the law for growing facilities, and she says they could be up and running 15 days after receiving a license from the Washington State Liquor Control Board—which the agency expects to issue in late February. Liquor board rules will allow newly licensed producers 15 days to get pot plants from anywhere, no questions asked. “The little… elves will just sprinkle it upon us,” she jokes.
But seriously, all that pot will come from ex-
isting grows, most of them medical, says DeNae. And we’re not just talking about little cuttings— serious cultivators are planning to have plants three or four feet tall ready soon after licensing. “Obviously we’re going to move in plants that are ready to pop,” she says.
“In any sort of business— restaurants, hotels, construction—the majority of start-ups will fail. Capitalism is a cruel mistress,” says a pot lawyer.
Their business, the Washington Bud Company, could have product ready in 8 to 10 weeks, but she worries that regulatory requirements and the newness of the process could slow the first batches of legal pot.
“There’s going to be a dearth of I-502-compliant products for a while,” predicts Brandon Hamilton, who plans to get production and processing licenses for his hash-oil-extraction company called WAM. “A good extract takes a long time to make because it takes a while to cure,” he says, but he thinks hash oil could hit retail shelves two to three weeks after first harvest.
Both Hamilton and DeNae say that finding property that complies with I-502 zoning is the single biggest roadblock for potential pot businesses and, ultimately, an adequate supply of product for the legal cannabis market.
hope to open pot shops, while the rest intend to seek production licenses. That may be because retail licenses could be subject to a lottery, and many pot people want their business success tied to something more predictable than governmentdrawn lots.
“There’s going to be winners and losers,” McVay says, speaking not only of the lottery, but also about the prospects for any nascent market. “In any sort of business—restaurants, hotels, construction—the majority of start-ups will fail. Capitalism is a cruel mistress.”
But some will certainly succeed, and an ability to weather uncertainty may be their distinguishing feature. “Businesses with financial flexibility and money behind them are going to do well,” predicts McVay.
Meanwhile, Eisenberg predicts that federal tax laws, which prohibit normal business deductions to pot sellers, will be the highest hurdle to running a successful cannabis retail business. “You can’t deduct payroll,” he says. “If you’re going to run the place correctly, you need good retail clerks, security, back office.”
If the tax code doesn’t change, the would-be cannabis entrepreneur is uncertain that retail pot will pan out. But on the local level, he thinks the state rules for pot sellers are well-written and easy to comply with. “A lot of other industries sure have a lot more regulation than this,” he says.
All of the people interviewed for this article think the liquor board has done a decent job with rule-making, despite having specific concerns and criticisms. Still, whether Washington State’s legal pot launch will go smoothly is anybody’s guess.
“Who knows what kind of bullshit we’ll have to go through initially,” says DeNae. “I imagine it will be an experiment in trial and error.”
Robert McVay, an attorney with Canna Law Group, tells me about one-third of their clients
Beyond Cheech & Chong
Doctors, Lawyers, Accountants, and Schoolteachers Are Happily Consuming Washington’s Legal Pot. How Long Will the Stereotype of the Law-Flaunting, Couch-Bound Pothead Prevail?
BY DAVID SCHMADER
As we make our way through the first year of legal marijuana in Washington State, it’s important to remember the world we’re leaving behind. There’s the soon-to-be-lost language of pot-related euphemism, designed to foil eavesdropping authorities, which the passage of Initiative 502 rendered instantly unnecessary. (RIP, “fuzzy green sweaters,” “puffy salad,” and “arijuanamay.”)
More poignantly, there’s the loss of The Dealer and the entirety of potdealer culture. For decades, the acquisition of marijuana has required the help of an intermediary, who shouldered the risk of larger-scale marijuana possession for light profit and the right to spin endless soliloquies about Sasquatch sightings to his or her pot-seeking customers/hostages, who offered forced-smile forbearance and tried not to squirm on the dealer’s weird sofa—a battle greatly aided by the dealer who welcomed you with a humongous bong hit upon arrival… And so the beautiful dance progressed, until now, or whenever the hell actual marijuana products will be
available in stores (see the timeline for legal pot on page 15).
But there’s at least one old-school stoner relic that’ll probably hang around for a while, especially with Washington State being a relatively tiny island of legality in a nation that still considers marijuana a highly controlled substance: the stain of counterculture criminality. In theory,
“I love going to the opera or the symphony completely thunderbaked,” says Ryan.
I-502 put recreational pot smokers in the same class as citizens who enjoy alcoholic beverages. But after decades of Cheech & Chong/Bill & Ted/ Dazed and Confused “cannabis culture,” can even the most responsible recreational pot smoker fully escape the stigma of stonerism?
For example, if a known pot smoker makes a mistake (a typo, a forgotten appointment), pot may be cited, even jokingly, as a contributing factor, in a way that, had a wine lover made the same mistake, few would
from a day spent writing campaign copy and “framing messages” “There are only so many ways you can say ‘exclusive donor benefit’”— and finding an invaluable new angle after his evening puff.
be inspired to draw a direct line of causation (even jokingly) to their wine cellar. Of course, this is just a matter of accumulating enough reallife examples of regular old highfunctioning pot appreciators to offset the decades of cartoon stereotypes, and upon posting a call for such citizens on Slog, The Stranger’s blog, I found a good, sturdy, respectably wary test subject.
Ryan, 35, describes himself as a professional, educated, “after 5 p.m.” smoker, who works in marketing and fundraising for a variety of social service and arts organizations. What pot he smokes comes from “the street”— “I have one solid source,” Ryan tells me. “And lots of friends just give it to me. Everyone’s got it. ‘Here, have a nug!’” When I ask if his pot use has any effect on the execution of his job, he cites no hindrances, only bankshot benefits, such as coming home
In his introductory e-mail, Ryan described himself as an “out-andproud pot smoker,” and in a follow-up e-mail, he explained what that meant in regard to his day-to-day life: “It kind of feels like coming out as gay. When I grew up in rural Montana, I spent my youth trying not to admit that I was gay, because I was taught that it was a sin, an abomination, criminal even. Thanks to antidrug programs like D.A.R.E., I was also instilled with this idea that marijuana would ruin my life. It was a product produced by degenerates and used by degenerates. Now, as an adult, I’m not ashamed of my homosexuality, nor am I ashamed that I responsibly enjoy fine Pacific Northwest cannabis, much like (or often with) a nice Scotch or wine. I don’t march in parades and shout it out at, say, a board meeting at work. But if someone asks me point-blank, I answer honestly. Yes, I smoke grass. It’s legal here. No, it hasn’t made me go crazy or grow boobs. I’ve never robbed a liquor store in a desperate attempt to get a ‘fix.’ It helps me unwind at the end of the day. It enhances my experiences as a writer and musician. It makes a plain Hershey’s chocolate bar into a luxurious bit of bliss. And sometimes it makes me forget where I put my pen, or accidentally call my mother ‘dude’ when she says something ridiculous on the phone.”
Pressed to name to the “stoner stereotype” he resents the most, he’s unequivocal: “That it’s criminal. My parents grew up in the ’50s, and when they busted me with dirt weed in high school, my mom screamed that their house would be taken away… Now I don’t have to feel like a criminal when I’m walking to a friend’s dinner party with a bud in my pocket for the ‘cigar course’ of the evening.” When I ask Ryan his favorite thing to do after an evening puff, he’s ready with a list: “Music, always. I love going to the opera or the symphony completely thunderbaked. Movies, too. EATING. And I write a lot.”
RYAN Professional, educated, “after 5 p.m.” pot smoker.
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Greenhorns
They Started Smoking Pot Only After It Became Legal
BY CIENNA MADRID
Two polarized camps dominated the pot conversation last year: On one side were stoners doing gravity-bong hits, and on the other side were cops warning that legal pot would lead to toddlers freebasing heroin. But one group was left out of the discussion entirely: people who had never smoked pot—because pot was illegal—but planned to try the stuff when voters legalized it.
I tracked down a few of these greenhorn stoners.
Eric and his wife, Jenny, smoked pot for the first time last December, just after Initiative 502 became law. “Our first foray into getting pot involved me deliberating for two weeks before reaching out to a neighbor to score us an eighth,” he says. “I finally got the courage to ask her via text message.”
Taking up pot smoking has been a healthy bonding experience for the couple, Eric says, because, among other things, they tend to stay home more, get stoned, and cook dinners
together instead of heading out to a restaurant. The middle-class couple eat healthier, and he’s lost 40 pounds since February, partially due to the fact that they now drink just once or twice a month instead of three or four days a week.
“I worry about smoking too much weed, or weed getting in the way of other things I want to do, but so far it hasn’t been any worse than drinking—other than not really being in tune with Seattle’s nightlife,” Eric says, because the couple doesn’t go out as much. “At the end of the day, it’s another fun way to pass the time relatively safely.”
Dan, who also declined to provide his last name, is another recent convert. He says he’d been listening to antidrug rhetoric since he was a teenager. “For weeks after trying dope this year, I assumed I would wake up with a needle in my arm giving a handjob for cash—because Nancy Reagan fucked my generation up so bad,” jokes the 46-year-old Microsoft employee. “Fortunately, that
How’s being a stoner working out?
“One thing that has been difficult for me is I know what a drink is and what it will do to me. I don’t really know what a dose of pot is, and no one seems to share ideas about that amount,” Dan explains. “I just make sure I don’t do any after midnight, and I am fine by work.”
Fortunately, when the retail stores open, dosage will be listed on the packages. Until then, some would-be weed stokers are biding their time.
Ben, a graduate student, is one of them. He is not yet a full-blown pot smoker, but he may become one when access and information improve. Ben says he has tried pot a few times, when it’s been offered by friends or at parties, but the experiences have been hit-and-miss.
hasn’t happened.”
The problem for Dan, Eric, Jenny, and other new pot smokers is that while possessing and smoking pot is legal, selling marijuana outside of a medical marijuana cooperative is not (and you need a medical marijuana authorization to join those). The state’s 334 recreational marijuana stores aren’t slated to open until roughly next June.
Eric says Jenny simply obtained a medical marijuana authorization. “She has some health issues that pot helps with,” Eric says. But they say getting a medical authorization was
“I’m looking forward to the chance to try different strains, with specific recommendations for each strain,” says Ben. “I don’t really want to buy pot from some guy on the street, or bug my friends about it, or try to get a prescription. I just don’t care that much—but if it’s available down the street in a nonsketchy way, then I’ll definitely try it again.”
Since they started using marijuana, the couple drinks only once or twice a month instead of three or four days a week.
mostly a matter of “convenience, quality, and price.” That also allowed them to plant a small cannabis garden in September.
Likewise, Dan visited his doctor to get a recommendation to use cannabis. “My back was killing me—I’ve had two medical procedures on it this year,” he says. “And I was told it would help with my high blood pressure.” And also like Eric and Jenny, he says he “was looking to cut down on the booze.”
Other people, such as Joy, are waiting to retire. Joy lives in Oregon but has a career as a medical professional in Washington—basically, her career simultaneously puts her within reach of legal marijuana while prohibiting her from taking advantage of it. Complicating matters, she also has a debilitating disease.
“I am fairly confident that I will explore marijuana’s effects, both medical and recreational, when my clinical career ends,” says Joy. “As someone who has never smoked… and was raised by conservatives who fully supported the war on drugs, this feels like a startling evolution.”
The Timeline
From Plants in the Ground to Retail Stores by Next June
BY BEN LIVINGSTON
THIS MONTH: The First Legal Pot Plants in the Ground Many of the pot plants that people will be smoking recreationally—and legally—next year are already planted. The reason why? Once licenses are issued next February, state rules will allow cannabis producers a 15-day “don’t ask, don’t tell” period where they may obtain seeds, starts, and nonflowering cannabis plants from anywhere, no questions asked. Many of those plants are growing right now, scattered across the state among the thousands of medical cannabis gardens.
NOVEMBER 18: State Accepts Applications Starting on this date, cannabis entrepreneurs have 30 days to submit applications for a business license. The Washington State Liquor Control Board will review producer and processor applications as they come in, says spokesman Brian Smith, but it will hold retail applications until the end of the application window to determine whether it’s necessary to conduct a lottery (if the state gets more applications than the number of licenses allotted for a particular region, the lottery will decide who gets a license and who doesn’t).
DECEMBER 18: Application Period
Closes All of this is uncharted territory, to be sure, but Smith estimates the agency will take 90 days to process applications. During this time, they will review each business plan to make sure it complies with strict regulations.
JANUARY 13: Legislature Convenes The liquor board intends to lobby for three pot-related bills in the 2014 legislative session. The first would allow
selling pot among processors, fixing a legal quirk that bans cannabis foodmakers from procuring ingredients like hash oil from other pot businesses. It would also limit hash transactions to seven grams—far less than the existing law allows citizens to possess. A second bill would let the liquor board employ minors to conduct stings on pot businesses, and a third bill would turn liquor board enforcement employees into a state police force.
LATE FEBRUARY: First Licenses
Issued Or maybe March, says Smith. Once the agency approves potgrowing licenses, Washington’s aforementioned first batch of pot plants will shimmy to their final destinations. Some of these adolescent plants will be huge by this time, capable of blooming more than a pound of pot. In two months, most will be har vested. The state plans to license two million square feet of recreational cannabis production—enough for around 200,000 full-grown plants. Large grows are likely to pack 3,000 plants into a single facility, while small producers may have as few as 100 plants.
MAY OR JUNE: Pot Shops Open
An approved pot business will have up to a year to activate their state license, but some of the expected 334 pot shops will certainly try to open as quickly as possible. Once harvested, the first batch of legal cannabis will take a few weeks, at least, to dry and process. As with most alcohol and cheeses, a longer rest, done right, tends to bring out the best in cannabis flowers, but like early Washington distillers sent “white whiskey” to market, expect the first retail cannabis to be “quick cured.”
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A Product We Want from the Pot Industry
BY DOMINIC HOLDEN
My older brother Michael was the first person to get me stoned. I can’t remember most of the stuff we talked about that evening because, uh, I was super stoned. But I do recall one thing he said: “When pot is legal, they will sell a strain of marijuana that is high in flavor—but low in potency.” That sort of lowoctane pot would allow people to smoke a whole joint, enjoying the sweet taste of the bud, while getting just a mild, manageable buzz.
the same as the penalty for a pound of low-potency bud, so they may as well sell the powerful stuff for more money.
But consuming a whole joint of that kind of weed is enough to catapult occasional smokers, like me, into a two-hour catatonic anxiety attack. We don’t want to get so high we can’t socialize or remember conversations with our older brother.
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Such a product would suit the vast majority of pot smokers. Of the roughly 100 million Americans who have smoked marijuana in their lifetime, most use pot infrequently and, thus, have a low tolerance. Specifically, the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that 31.8 million Americans consumed pot in the last year, while only 17.4 million used it in the past month, and only a tiny subset, 5.4 million people, smoked pot daily or almost daily.
In other words, only a fraction of pot smokers need powerful weed to get high.
Still, brain-stunning superbud dominates the existing West Coast marijuana market. This is a direct result of prohibition. Growers try to yield the maximum profit per plant to make their risk worthwhile, which means growing pot with the highest-possible concentrations of THC. Traffickers and dealers want high potency, too (like moonshine runners), because they want to reduce their chances of getting caught by carrying smaller quantities. After all, the penalty for selling a pound of powerful pot is
A legal pot market can finally change this. Rather than pot being grown in small basement gardens (which requires expensive overhead per plant), growers will soon cultivate crops in large warehouses or outdoors (where the cost per plant plummets). And in a legal industry, the growers, distributors, and sellers won’t be tacking on exorbitant markups to compensate for outsize legal risk.
That’s why I want the pot industry to make my brother’s dream a reality and sell high-flavor, lowpotency joints that look and feel like cigarettes. (Disclaimer: Smoking anything is unhealthy, but as an adult you’re allowed to do things that are a little unhealthy.) And imagine: While friends go out to smoke cigarettes, you could join them with one of these joints that contain a measured dose of pot and a refined flavor (not too dank, not too harsh). You could get a mild high, like the equivalent of a couple glasses of wine, that still lets you function like a normal human being.
That sort of pot simply wasn’t economically viable under prohibition, but we’re not living under prohibition anymore.
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Council Tries to Ban Medical Marijuana
City Says the Recreational Pot Market Takes Precedence
BY DOMINIC HOLDEN
On October 7, the Seattle City Council passed a bill that may effectively ban medical marijuana dispensaries within the city limits by requiring them to obtain a state medical marijuana license by 2015— a license that does not exist.
Roughly a dozen speakers pleaded with the council in testimony that day, including Alex Cooley, vice president of Solstice, which operates a medical marijuana growing facility in Sodo. “Requiring medical [marijuana dispensaries] to have a license when the license does not exist is completely unfair,” Cooley argued.
But the council had apparently already made up its mind.
into a single, regulated system.”
Dispensaries would need a license that doesn’t exist.
The week before, all nine council members signed a letter stating their intentions to the governor. The letter telegraphed a strategy to nix medical cannabis dispensaries, in essence, by requiring them to obtain the same licenses and abide by the same regulations as recreational pot stores, which were legalized last fall by Initiative 502. Currently, more than 100 medical dispensaries operate in Seattle; the state is expected to license only 21 recreational pot stores in the city by next year.
“If relatively easy access to medical cannabis continues, the goals and potential of Initiative 502 will be undermined,” the council wrote. After expressing the city’s interest in regulating the pot markets, the council went on, “This could mean combining the general adult cannabis market and the medical cannabis market
But, in testimony before the vote, activists argued the council would violate voter intent. The initiative to legalize adult recreational pot last fall was not supposed to reduce patients’ access to medical marijuana. By shunting dispensaries into the same handful of tiny zones where recreational stores will be allowed, and by requiring stores to have a state license (either one of just 21 recreational licenses or a theoretical dispensar y license, which, again, does not exist), the council is using the recreational pot law as an excuse to gut medical marijuana.
But bill sponsor Nick Licata insisted it’s not the council’s “intent” to ban dispensaries completely. He said the legislature could create a medical marijuana license next year that would allow dispensaries in Seattle to stay open. Licata said the council’s bill was “a little nudge to the state to do something.” However, that’s entirely speculative. Olympia already failed once, in 2011, to approve dispensary licenses. The legislature is also famously hostile to Seattle interests. And a legislative work group is trying to ban dispensaries outright. (See page 23.) Licata said the city could revisit the issue if the state fails to issue medical marijuana licenses, but that also seems unlikely. The council made its intentions clear in that letter: to eliminate medical dispensaries, or limit the places they can open, so they don’t compete with recreational pot outlets.
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Can the Medical Pot Law Be Saved?
Olympia Looks Intent on Repealing Rights for Sick and Dying
BY BEN LIVINGSTON
In mid-October, a work group created by the legislature announced recommendations that would gut the medical cannabis law approved by Washington State voters in 1998.
In addition to eliminating medical marijuana dispensaries, the advisory group’s proposal would: (1) terminate the rights of patients to grow cannabis at home, (2) block legal defenses in court raised by patients who use cannabis under a doctor’s supervision, (3) reduce possession limits from 24 ounces to three ounces, (4) require doctors to register pot patients with the state, (5) forbid doctors from specializing in medical cannabis, and (6) negate every pot authorization in the state when retail pot stores open.
Part of the stated goal is implementing Initiative 502, which is the recreational marijuana law passed last fall that will allow for strictly regulated retail stores. But that recreational pot law says nothing about medical marijuana.
The work group represents various government interests (including the state’s departments of health, revenue, and liquor). Governor Jay Inslee’s senior policy adviser took a seat on the work group—which met in secret and claimed to be exempt from public disclosure laws—and appears to have approved all of these proposals.
To be absolutely clear, the state’s medical marijuana law was never supposed to be governed by the liquor board or revenue department.
And I-502’s language was not intended to affect the medical marijuana law—not by those who sponsored it or the voters who passed it. Yet opportunistic bureaucrats are using I-502 as justification to remove such basic rights as legal defenses and home cultivation for the sick and dying.
The question is if the sponsors of I-502—which was led by the ACLU of Washington—will demonstrate the willpower to stop them. After all, the ACLU insisted that I-502 would not result in any change to the medical marijuana law.
However, the drafter of I-502, ACLU’s Alison Holcomb, seems to frown on medical dispensaries, saying, “We do not believe the unlicensed and unregulated sale of untested products to patients with terminal and debilitating medical conditions is good policy.” She adds that the recreational stores allowed by I-502 “will serve the important needs of people who use marijuana for medicine.”
Nonetheless, Holcomb says the ACLU will be “taking a serious posture toward the liquor control board recommendations. We will submit and publicize our response, one that will clearly oppose specific proposals we think would be detrimental—e.g., we oppose the elimination of home growing and the elimination of the affirmative defense, both of which have been important protections for patients.” She says the ACLU will also continue to defend patients through litigation.
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FRIDAY 11/7–8
2013 National Marijuana Business Conference
A two-day confab that’s expected to draw 500 attendees from all around the country to discuss everything related to legal cannabis. Sponsored by the Medical Marijuana Business Journal. Emerald Downs, 2300 Emerald Downs Dr, Auburn, WA, full info at mmjbusinessdaily.com.
FRIDAY 11/8
Adventures in Cannabisland
This weekly social gathering features a live jazz band and welcomes guests 21 and over, who are invited to bring and enjoy their own marijuana products. Galaxy Lounge, 2329 Rainier Ave S, 420-4065, every Friday.
MONDAY 11/11
David Sedaris
The man who’s made more people weep with laughter than Tracy Morgan, Glenn Beck, and that comedian made entirely of diced onion combined returns to Benaroya for an evening of amazingly hilarious sentences that will inspire multiple actual spit-takes. (Also possible: deep pathos—Sedaris’s latest piece for the New Yorker concerns the suicide of his sister.) Benaroya Hall, 200 University St, seattlesymphony.org, 8 pm, $43–$52.
TUESDAY 11/12
Hausu
Why is this 1977 horror comedy from Japan one of the greatest films a high-on-marijuana person will ever encounter? Among the many reasons: its plot (which involves a group of schoolgirls who visit a spooky old mansion that devours them one by one); its cast (packed with wellintentioned amateurs!); and its coscreenwriter (director Nobuhiko Obayashi’s young daughter, who concocts situations only a thoroughly encouraged 7-year-old might, like having a character suddenly turn into a bunch of bananas). Central Cinema, 1421 21st Ave, centralcinema.com, 9:30 pm, $6.
FRIDAY–SATURDAY 11/15–16
Female Trouble
After making the entire world vomit with delight with Pink Flamingos, John Waters and Divine re-teamed to make this pitch-black comedy about the life and crimes of Dawn Davenport, a troubled teen who grows up to shock the world as an art-crime superstar before she’s executed by the state. Featuring the most epic film performance of Divine, Female Trouble has come to be known colloquially as “her Gone with the Wind”—see why while high or die trying. Grand Illusion, 1403 NE 50th St, grandillusioncinema.org, 10 pm.
MONDAY 11/18
Thomas Dolby
The man responsible for some of the pot-friendliest pop music ever (see
“The Flat Earth” and “Screen Kiss”) visits Seattle with his multimedia film-and-music extravaganza The Invisible Lighthouse. Showbox at the Market, 1426 First Ave, 8 pm, $20 adv/$25 DOS, 21+.
FRIDAY–THURSDAY 11/22–28
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Steven Spielberg’s analog sci-fi mindblower of 1977 returns in a new 35 mm print. (Bonus for stoners: Teri Garr!) Grand Illusion, 1403 NE 50th St, grandillusioncinema.org.
THURSDAY 12/5
Marijuana License Day!
Today the Washington State Liquor Control Board “expects to begin issuing licenses for marijuana producers, processors and retailers.” Will it actually happen? Show up and find out! Washington State Liquor Control Board, 118 N 45th St, info at listserv.wa.gov.
FRIDAY 12/6
Legal Pot’s First Anniversary! Celebrate the day with the bunch of potheads who plan to descend on Seattle Center for a 4:20 toke session. Seattle Center, 305 Harrison St, 4:20 pm.
SATURDAY 12/28
Duke Ellington’s Sacred Music
The spiritual yet swinging holiday tradition returns, complete with jazz big band, vocal and instrumental soloists, a gospel choir, and tap dancers. Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave, townhallseattle.org, 7:30 pm, $14–$36.
TUESDAY 12/31
Green New Year’s Eve Celebration
A special New Year’s Eve edition of the social club Adventures in Cannabisland, featuring live music, dancing, raffle prizes, and refreshments.
“Bring your medicine, have a great time, and welcome in the new year at NW Cannabis Market!” Galaxy Lounge, 2329 Rainier Ave S, 4204065, 21+.
FRIDAY–SUNDAY 1/10–26
Jerry Springer: The Opera For anyone who ever sat stoned on a sofa watching Jerry Springer and thought, “They should make this an opera.” Moore Theatre, 1932 Second Ave, stgpresents.org, $35.
FRIDAY–SUNDAY 2/14–16
Mark Morris Dance Group If you’ve never gotten high and attended a modern-dance performance, here is a brilliant opportunity to right that grievous wrong. Packed with conceptual drama, physical exertion, gorgeous music, and gawkworthy human forms, the Mark Morris Dance Group will ravish you with pleasure. Paramount Theatre, 911 Pine St, stgpresents.org.
SATURDAY 3/29— SUNDAY 3/20 Vegfest
Bake yourself till munchy then head to Seattle Center for the 2013 Vegfest, where an $8 entry fee gains you access to a vast world of meat-free food samples and above-average people watching. Bonus: free cholesterol, glucose, and blood-pressure tests on-site! Seattle Center Exhibition Hall, 305 Harrison St, vegofwa. org/vegfest, 10 am–6 pm, $8/kids under 12 free.
Contrary to potheadular belief, not everything should be done while high on marijuana, including (but not limited to) driving, babysitting, voting, investing, performing surgery, and shopping at Costco.
Green Business Guide
ACCESSORIES
2K Industries 2804479, 2kindustries.net
Black Box Vape Pen 890-1847, blackboxvapepen.com
BudVape budvape.com
BudVape is a three-person company headquartered in Seattle. We specialize in providing quality portable vaporizing devices at affordable prices.
Chief Cottonmouth
1111 River Rd Puyallup WA 98371, 253-8480260, shopchiefcottonmouth.com Check out our online store for top quality products at a reasonable price.
Fire & Earth 107 Franklin St NE Olympia WA 98501, 360-705-3976, fireandeartholympia.com Olympia’s biggest and best glass shop. All local NW artists, no imports. Quality glass, vaporizers, and essential oil gear.
GrowRa GrowRa.com
The Kind Pen 732339-4025, thekindpen. com Personal vaporizer pen. One vape, three options: oil/wax/herb. Lifetime warranty.
Lazydaze Counterculture 210-342-0420, lazydazeco.com
O-penVape Info@ SoundCO2.com, o-penvape.com Openvape is produced by SoundCO2 for Washington State. Each batch is tested for microbial contaminants and cannabinoid profile by Cannatest.
Smokin Js 360-4231090, smokinjs.com
Solid Apollo LED
2125 196th St SW, Suite 112 Lynwood WA 98036, 425-582-7533, solidapollo.com Solid Apollo LED produces Solar Core Grow Lights which come equipped with custom spectra and BridgeLUX 3W LEDs.
Vapornation.com
888-321-8276, VaporNation.com VaporNation has the largest selection of vaporizers at the lowest prices, guaranteed. We also include free shipping with each vaporizer.
CLONES/SEEDS
Clonetix 425-919-7992, Clonetix.com Washington’s ONLY provider of ready-to-flower trees. Clonetix: the medicinal farmers best friend.
Cloneville 9258 57th Ave S Seattle WA 98118, 725-7092, clonevilleseattle.com
WASeedbank.com 403-6680, WASeedBank. com Washington-based online seed bank offering rare genetics and elite strains. Patients and vendors wanted. WA shipping available.
COOPERATIVES
A Green Cure 910 N 145th St Shoreline WA 98133, 466-1264
A Greener Today 9509
Rainier Ave S Seattle WA 98118, 257-0894, agreenertoday.com We specialize in our award-winning, in-house medical cannabis, hash, and BHO. Our goal is to exceed your expectations.
Alter Care 828 Rainier Ave S Seattle WA 98144, 329-2223, altercare.co At Alter Care we provide top shelf medicine. You’re welcome to come in and visit our friendly, experienced staff.
Alternative Care
Clinic 5609 Fourth Ave S Seattle WA 98108, 6292122, mmjwa.org
Alternative Medical Collective 5435 California Ave SW West Seattle WA 98136, 853-7391
Compassionately serving the needs of medical marijuana patients with premier satisfaction, right from the heart of the West Seattle Junction.
C.P.C. Center for Palliative Care 74 S Lucile St Seattle 98134, 888972-1555, TheCPC.org
Canna RX 3601
Fremont Ave N, Suite 210 Seattle WA 98103, 5881637, cannarxseattle.com
Canna Rx is a non-profit cannabis collective that strives to achieve true professionalism in the field of medical cannabis.
Cannabis Club Collective 2706 Sixth Ave Tacoma WA 98406, 253507-4725
Cannabis Farmers
Markets 1912 Center St Tacoma WA 98409, 253-761-7806, cannabisfarmersmarkets.com
Cannabis Oasis
11009 First Ave S Seattle WA 98146, 999-0645, cannabisoasis.org
Cannatonics Society Collective Gardens 708 Broadway Tacoma WA 98402, 253-3025539, cannatonics.org
Cesar’s Salad 3908 Aurora Ave N Seattle WA 98103, 547-5754, CesarsSalad.com Cesar’s Salad is Seattle’s newest luxury cannabis safe access point. Come on in & get your cookies til’ midnight!
Columbia City Holistic Health 5262 Rainier Ave S Seattle WA 98118, 725-1040, columbiacityholistic.com
Conscious Care Cooperative 1701 NW Market St Seattle WA 98107, 297-6043, dopemaps.com/locations/ conscious-care-cooperative-ballard In the heart of Ballard, Conscious Care Cooperative serves only the highest quality medicine, honest knowledge, and overall wellness dedication.
Cool Calm Collective 12309 15th Ave NE, Suite B Seattle WA 98125, 365-5737
Crown Hill Collective 1104 NW 85th St Seattle, 257-0358
Cured Cooperative 7826 N Market St, Suite E Spokane WA 99217, 509808-2800, MMJMenu. com/Cured
CWC Gardens 8600 Aurora Ave N, Suite A Seattle WA 98103, 6823015, choicewellnesswa. com Always premium organic medicine. Cancer & pain specialists.
Dank Tank 17028 N Aurora Seattle WA 98133, 533-1900
Delta 9 8007 Lake City Way NE Seattle WA 98115, 525-4202, delta9seattle.com
Dockside Co-Op 223 N 36th St Seattle WA 98103, 420-4837, docksidecoop.org Dockside Co-op provides safe access to quality medicine for authorized patients in a comfortable, respectful and professional atmosphere.
Emerald City Collective Gardens 3161 Elliott Ave #102 Seattle WA 98121, 462-1050
Emerald Gardens 16053 Aurora Ave Seattle WA 98133
Evergreen Association of Collective Gardens 124 N Central Ave #102 Kent WA 98032, 253-854-5900, evergreenacg.org
Fremont Gardens 316 N. 36th St. Seattle WA 98103, 632-7126, www. fremontgardens.org
Fusion 1602 Dexter Ave N Seattle WA 98109, 402-3957, FusionMedicalMarijuana.com
Grasshopper Medical 4515 Meridian Ave N, #A Seattle WA 98103, 829-8283, grasshoppermed.com
Green Ambrosia 7730 15th NW Seattle WA 98117, 496-2345, greenambrosia.net
Green Buddha 2253 NE 65th St Seattle WA, 297-9640, greenbuddha. us Since 2008 Green Buddha has been assisting MMJ patents in procuring the best locally grown tested organic medicinal cannabis.
Green Cafe 13417 1/2 Pacific Ave S Tacoma WA 98444, 253-302-4106, greencafeoftacoma.com
Green Collar Club
10422 Pacific Ave S, #B Tacoma WA 98444, 253-267-0675, greencollarclub.com
The Green Door 1207 S Jackson St Seattle WA 98104, 618-7133, thegreendoorseattle.com
Green Rush 14608 Highway 99, Suite 304 Lynnwood WA 98087, 425-678-8106
The Green Skunk 11231 Roosevelt Way NE Seattle WA 98125, 915-9424, seattlemarijuanadispensary.net
Green Solution Collective 15941 Meridian Ave East Puyallup WA 98375, 253-845-0525
The Green Warehouse 8223 Pacific Ave Tacoma WA, 253-5074794, thegreenwarehouse. biz
Greenside Medical
9804 Lake City Way NE Seattle WA 98125, 3803129, greensidemedical. com Greenside Medical is dedicated to being Seattle’s premier MMJ collective. Providing a safe and secure environment for every patient.
Greenworks 11064 Lake City Way NE, #6 Seattle WA 98125, 922-3911, greenworksnw.com 20% off for first visit. 30+ strains, 20+ hashes. medibles, tinctures, topicals, books and seeds. Wheel chair accessible. Convenient parking.
The Healing Center 316 Capitol Way N Olympia WA 98501, 360515-0258
Herbal Choice Caregivers 253-981-4444, herbalcc.com
The Herbal Collective 6204 112th St E Puyallup WA 98373, 253256-4251
The Herbal Gardens 824 S 28th St Tacoma WA 98402, 253-2725265, herbalgardens.org
Herbal Health Care Center 5303 Rainier Ave S, Unit E Seattle WA, 453-4960
Herban Legends 9619 16th Ave SW Seattle WA 98106, 8495596, HerbanLegends. com A place of health and healing, comfort and character. We provide only the highest quality medicines and edibles.
Homegrown Helpers Farmacy Seattle, 605-7937 Top-notch medication, edibles, tinctures, topicals, hash, and concentrates. Free parking in lot. Call for appointment.
The Joint Cooperative 5265 University Way NE Seattle WA 98105, 2833333, thejointcoop.com
Key Peninsula Collective 15607 92nd St KP N Lakebay WA 98349, 253-884-6420, kpcollective.org
Lacey Cross 4227 Pacific Ave SE Lacey WA 98503, 360-493-0420, laceycross.com
Left Coast Cannabis 7604 S Tacoma Way, Suite B Tacoma WA 98409, 8 00-887-5785, leftcoastcannabis.com
Life Tree 12409 Renton Ave S, 683-0508
Life’s RX 3904 NE Fourth St Renton WA 98059, 425-572-5905, lifesrx.com We are very clean and compassionate. Specializing in top grade medicine. If we don’t have it, we’ll strive to get It!
The Lifevine Collective medmj-wa.com
Local Roots Modern Medicine 425-628-1000
MAP - Medicine Access Point 682-2545, MedicineAccessPoint.com
Medical Marijuana Patients Network
4204 Russell Rd, #A Mukilteo WA 98275, 425346-4533, medicalmarijuanapatientsnetwork.com
Medicine Man Wellness Center 4021 Aurora Ave N Seattle WA 98103, 632-4021, medicinemanwellness.com
Medigreen 11012
Canyon Rd E, Suite 43 Puyallup WA 98373 MedigreenPuyallup@gmail.com
Mt Baker Collective WA, 360-410-6158, mtbakercollective.com
Natural Green Medicine 4701 Roosevelt Way NE, Suite B Seattle WA 98105, 557-4632, naturalgreenmedicine.com Fresh flowers & edibles!
The Natural Therapy Center 18407 Pacific Ave, Suite 1 Spanaway WA 98387
Natures Resource Center 3833 Pacific Ave, Suite C Tacoma WA 98418, 253-572-5544
Northwest Medical Cannabis Alliance
570A Industry Drive, Bldg 6 Seattle WA 98188, 4007081, NWMCA.com
Northwest Natural Medicine and Services 9027 Pacific Ave Tacoma WA 98444, 253-531-4057, nwmedicine.com
Northwest Patient Resource Center 9456 35th Ave SW Seattle WA 98126, 588-2841, NWPRC. net Quality cannabis, knowledgeable staff, secure environment. No appointment necessary. West Seattle location open seven days.
Northwest Patient Resource Center 1809 Minor Ave Seattle WA 98101, 623-0848, NWPRC.net Quality cannabis, knowledgeable staff, secure environment. No appointment necessary. Downtown location open Monday-Saturday.
NW Cannabis Market - Rainier Ave 2329
Rainier Ave S Seattle WA 98144, 420-4065, nwcannabismarket.com
NW Cannabis Market- White Center
9640 16th Ave SW Seattle WA 98106, 420-4823, nwcannabismarket.com Two convenient locations. The “Galaxy” location is open 7 days a week 11-7 pm. Visit our Dab Bars.
Pacific NW Medical 19926 Aurora Ave N Seattle WA 98133, 542-2334
Patient Care Network 921 S Harney St Seattle WA 98108, 397-4197
Plump Medical Marijuana 2258 15th Ave W Seattle WA 98119, 765-7289, PlumpMed. com Open to midnight everyday. Plump serves up premier cannabis flowers, medibles and concentrates at the best prices period.
PPC Northwest 1421 N 34th St Seattle WA 98103, 402-6643, ppcnorthwest.com
Rain City Medical 11537 Rainier Ave S Seattle WA 98178, 7220023, raincitymedical.com
Rainier Wellness Center 3111 S Pine St Tacoma WA, 253-3023365, rainierwellnesscenter.com
Sea of Green Farms 588-1308, seaofgreenfarms.com
Seashore Collectives 17517 15th Ave NE Shoreline WA 98155, 687-7787
Seattle Cross 2315 E John St Seattle WA 98122, 387-4367, tacomacross.org
Seattle Greenlight Care Center 9211 Delridge Way SW Seattle WA, 497-MEDS Newest safest access point in Seattle. Come visit Seattle Green Light Care center and mention our ad to get a free gram.
Seattle Medical Marijuana Association 4465 Fremont Ave N Seattle WA 98103, 883-0573, MedicalMarijuanaSeattle.com The Seattle Medical Marijuana Association (SMMA) strives to make the best selection of the highest quality medicine accessible and affordable.
Seattle Quality Collective 13760 Aurora Ave N Seattle WA 98133, 257-4941, seattle-quality. com
Seattle’s Best Cannabis 2329 Rainier Ave S Seattle WA 98114, 495-5498, seattlesbestcannabis.net Carrying only Cannabis Cup winners and worldclass strains. Proven F1 genetics grown in rich organic vegan soil.
The Source - Medical Marijuana Access Point 118 S Washington St Seattle WA 98104, 395-2036, facebook.com/ TheSourcePioneerSq
Suzie Q’s 12710 Aurora Ave N Seattle WA 98133, 533-3567, mysuzieqs.com
Tacoma Cross 1126 Commerce St Tacoma WA 98402, 253-627-1377, tacomacross.org
TNC Explosive Gardens 2033 Bing Ct NW Olympia WA 98502, 360581-0328, tncexplosivegardens.com
Top Choice Wellness Center 19861 Renton
Maple Valley Rd Kent WA 98038, 491-3582
Tranquility Holistic Center 425-207-8504, tranquilityholisticcenter@ yahoo.com THC offers patients innovative and cutting-edge mediums to medicate balanced with old school techniques, conveniently located in downtown Renton.
Trees Collective
10532 Greenwood Ave N Seattle WA 98133, 257-4407, treescollective. com Raising the bar for Seattle’s medical industry. House-grown or traded organic medicine ensure quality and fair donations. Got Trees?
Urban Healing Collective 2329 Rainier Ave S Seattle WA 98106, 7472495, urbanhealingcollective.org Urban Healing provides award-winning quality. The Northwest’s top producers and processors; Fire Brothers, Phenotype Farmers, Solstice, TKO, Aurum, Refine.
Urban Roots Seattle WA, 527-5154, mygreennow.org Urban Roots provides safe and affordable access to Washington’s best cannabis health care. Come join our community of wellness today!
Washington Alternative Medicine 4578848, wamoil.com WAM SCCO2 extractions provide the most pure, smooth and safe cannabis concentrate available. WAM Oil: there is no substitute.
Wedgwood Wellness
3418 NE 65th St Seattle WA 98115, 687-7871
West Coast Wellness 14314 Greenwood Ave N Seattle WA 98133, 420-3296, wcw420.com WCW has been serving the Northwest as the premium access point for patients for nearly three years. This month we honor all coupons, take advantage.
West Seattle Holistic Health 708-7398, westseattlehh.com West Seattle Holistic Health, part of Holistic Health Network, patients working together for safe access, quality products, and best value.
Woodinville Alternative Medicine 21127 State Route 9 Woodinville WA, 425-415-3800
DELIVERY
Bellingham Alternative Medicine WA, 360-670-2140
BudJet Express WA, 425-299-0144
Cloud 9 Cares WA, 360-271-7286, cloud9cares.com Delivering to Kitsap, Jefferson, Mason, Clallam, King, Snohomish, Whatcom, & Bainbridge. Affordable, top-quality in the privacy of your own home.
Cloud 9 Cares Bainbridge WA, 979-2113, cloud9cares.com
Cloud 9 Cares Port Angeles WA, 360-4346604, cloud9cares.org
Cloud 9 Cares Snohomish WA, 979-2317, cloud9cares.org
Emerald City Patient Group WA, 495-9263, ecpgmmj.org
Fweedom Inc Seattle, 734-9333, Fweedom.com
Green Health Cooperative WA, 800-7640927
Herbin Alternative WA, 425-420-4665, herbinalternative.com
Kured Delivery 855-87-KURED, kuredseattle.com Specializing in providing patients unmatched quality of service and the highest quality cannabis. We are “Seattle’s Top Shelf Delivery Service.”
Lewis County Co-op 360-304-8364
Medcan Delivery
Seattle WA 98121, 7287711, medcandelivery.com
North Seattle Medical Collective Seattle WA 98133, 462-5353, northseattlemedco.org
Nurse Nancy Seattle WA 98101, 551-6770, NurseNancyDelivery.com Seattle’s fastest and most reliable medical marijuana delivery. We deliver premium quality cannabis in 30 minutes, 10 am - 2 am every day!
Sasquatch Deliveries 425-505-7278, sasquatch-deliveries.com
Snoconnection 425903-1971, SnoConnection.com SnoConnection Delivery Service is fast, discreet, and professional. Open from 10 am to 10 pm seven days a week.
Strictlyorganic 4507718
Sure Can Delivery 535-7645, surecan.org Delivering throughout Seattle and the Greater Seattle Area, specializing in organic flowers! The state’s best medibles, topicals, 40+ concentrates, $20-50/g!
THC Care Provider
Seattle WA 98107, 9091961, thccareprovider.com
Therapeutic Health Center WA, 888-6454640
DOCTORS
4 Evergreen Group 800-414-2202, 4evergreengroup.com Our clinic provides medical cannabis recommendations to qualified Washington State patients. Located throughout Western and Eastern WA.
Advanced Holistic Health 160 NW Gilman Blvd, Suite C Issaquah WA 98027, 800-5085428, advancedholistichealth.org Convenient Seattle and Bellevue clinics with true 24/7 real-person verification. Medicate safely: Get Ahh-thorized today.
Alternative Health Treatment & Healing Center 18820 Aurora Ave N, Suite 104B Shoreline WA 98133, 533-9420, althealththc. com Our naturopathic physicians treat patients with noninvasive remedies and recommendations. Herbal consultations start at $99. Visit our website today!
CannaHealth 9447 35th Ave SW Seattle WA 98126, 877-5138012, cannahealth.org
CannaHealth offers local clinics, 24-hour online verification and online renewals helping you find an appropriate pain management alternative(s).
Care Wellness Center 5267 University Ave NE Seattle WA 98105, 466-1766, thecarewellnesscenter.com
Cascadia Natural Health 425-486-1858, cascadianaturalhealth.com
Dr. Scott Rose 425822-8356, MarketStreetIntegrativeHealth.com
Green WellnessKennewick 7 Area Locations, 888-885-9949, greenwellness.org
Green World Medical 877-3776, greenworldmedical.com
Hope Clinic 283HOPE, thehopeclinic. com Affordable and reliable MMJ evaluation for $75. Easy and convenient location.
The Hope Clinics
5267 University Way NE Seattle WA 98105, 4661766, thehopeclinics.com
One of Seattle’s oldest, most reputable doctor clinics. Strong supporter of political progression of safe regulation around medical cannabis.
The Hope Clinics
2532 Alki Ave SW, Suite B Seattle WA 98116, 466-1766, thehopeclinics.com One of Seattle’s oldest, most reputable doctor clinics. Strong supporter of political progression of safe regulation around medical cannabis.
The Hope Clinics 16510 Highway 9, Suite E Snohomish WA 98296, 466-1766, thehopeclinics.com One of Seattle’s oldest, most reputable doctor clinics. Strong supporter of political progression of safe regulation around medical cannabis.
Nature’s Medical Group 8600 Aurora Ave N, Suite B Seattle WA 98103, 682-3015, choicewellnesswa. com Get qualified by Washington’s best physicians. We brought the cost of evaluations down four years ago. Why pay more?
Northwest Green Resource Group 1620 Broadway, Suite 204 Seattle WA 98122, 453-4181, nwgreenresource.com Providing the industry’s most trusted and reliable Medical MMJ authorization card. Privacy, protection and care are our #1 priority.
Northwest Healthy Options 12317 40th Ave NE Seattle WA 98125, 707-8494, nwhealthyoptions.com
SMG Medical / CannaCare 2753 First Ave S Seattle WA 98134, 319-0600, smgclinic.com
South Sound Medicine 6326 Martin Way E #103 Lacey WA 98516, 800-385-2490, southsoundmedicine.com
South Sound Medicine 9013 NE Highway 99, #C Vancouver WA 98665, 800-385-2490, southsoundmedicine.com
South Sound Medicine 1730 Minor Ave, #150 Seattle WA 98101, 800-385-2490, southsoundmedicine.com
Sunleaf Medical Center Kent WA, 425248-9066, sunleafmedical.com
Verde Medical Group 866-306-3210
Verde Medical Group works with patients seeking an alternative to conventional treatment plans. Located in both Eastern and Western Washington.
WAMM Health & Wellness 360-8868030, wamm-medical. com
Washington State Medical Marijuana Clinic 799-4427, WMMCA.com We specialize in providing legally-sound and professional medicinal cannabis authorizations to qualifying patients.
EDIBLES
Covington Holistic Medicine 16204 SE 272nd St Covington WA 98042, 253-630-3050, covingtonholisticmedicine. com
Golden Dragon Medicinal Syrup 963-6058, goldendragon206@gmail.com Fully infused pure glycerite extract. Contains raw cannabis compounds CBG-A, THC-A, CBD-A, & complete spectrum of terpenoids & flavonoids.
Goodies Green Label Seattle WA, goodiesgreenlabel.com
Happy Wayz Medibles 398-9581
Kit-Teas 1912 Center St Tacoma WA, 253-2981090
Midnite Baking Company 360-7195884, midnitebakingcompany.com
Puff N Stuf Seattle WA, 253-297-3663, kbpuffnstuf@gmail.com Qualitytested, award-winning medibles. Located at the NW Cannabis Farmers Market in West Seattle. Medicated lunches Wednesday through Saturday.
Seattle Cannabis Kitchen chef@seattlecannabiskitchens.com
SOMA FOODS 8537659 Washington’s first & best organic medicated food and topical company. At many access points.
EDUCATION
420 College - WA
Marijuana School 659-6981, WashingtonMarijuanaSchool.com
Washington Cannabis Institute can help you get started operating & growing your own marijuana business in Washington following I-502 Guidelines.
Cannabis Caregivers 13710 Macadam Rd S Seattle WA 98168, 255-9368
The Hemp and Cannabis Foundation 425-869-6186, thc-foundation.org
The Hemp Cloud University 852-1643, choicewellnesswa.com Classes for patients on growing their own medicine. Certification for Medical Cannabis Associates.
Hempfest Central 12351 Lake City Way NE #102 Seattle WA 98125, 364-HEMP, hempfest. org Hemp boutique and 420 culture store. Headquarters for the positive pot movement.
Marijuana Business Association 425-6293074, mjba.net
MMJ Concentrates Cup 235-6721, concentratescup.com More information at nwleaf.com
Hydrotech Hydroponics
MMJ Dynamics Seattle, 855-523-9473, mmjdynamics.com Patient, inventory, and employee management made easy and secure. You’re in control. Privacy is protected. Give MMJ Dynamics a try!
The Pantry Raid 933-8494, thepantryraid. com PantryRaid Cooking with Cannabis classes are fun and useful; learn how to use green medicine in new, delightful ways!
RMMC Consulting, LLC Seattle WA, 3958280, RMMCconsulting. com Your cannabis business consultant! Information on services available online.
Urban Garden Specialty Wenatchee WA, 509-888-7620, urbangardenspecialty.com
The Washington Affiliate of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws 888-920-9755, wanorml. org Working to reform marijuana laws.
GROW SHOPS
Hydro-Tech Hydroponics 2121 Aurora Ave N Seattle WA 98109, 547-2202, seattlehydroponics.com Efficient full-spectrum plant lights, 50w-1000w. Let us custom-tailor a light plan to suit your situation and needs.
Cowan Kirk Gaston Law Firm 4040 Lake Washington Blvd NE, #300 Kirkland WA, 866822-1230, cowanlawfirm.com Cowan Kirk Gaston: Washington’s premier DUI defense firm. Charged with an alcohol or drug DUI? We are here to help.
Dellino Law Group 918 S Horton St, Suite 707 Seattle WA 98134, 659-6839, dellinolaw.com
Our goal is to provide the highest caliber of legal representation to our clients at an affordable rate.
Jeffrey Steinborn 3161 Elliott Ave, Suite 340 Seattle WA 98121, 622-5117, potbust.com
Kurt E. Boehl PLLC 8420 Dayton Ave N, Suite 102 Seattle WA 98103, 728-0200, Seattle-Criminaldefense. com Representing patients in the formation and management of collective gardens and aggressively defending individuals charged with drug crimes.
Platt & Buescher 360-678-6777, craigplatt. com Craig Platt has been fighting back against the “War on Drugs” for thirty years. He’ll fight hard for you, too.
Sean Cecil 705 Second Ave, Suite 1300 Seattle WA 98106, 9575380, ceciladvocate.com
Seattle Gay LawyerSean Nyberg 175 NE Gilman Blvd, Suite 100 Issaquah WA 98027, 425-681-5359, seattlegaylawyer.com
Wykowski Law Group 3131 Western Ave, Suite 405 Seattle WA 98121, 745-6500, wykowskilaw.com We specialize in representing medical cannabis dispensaries and related businesses. Extensive experience in business litigation, tax law and criminal defense.
SECURITY
Canna Security America (CSA) 888929-4CSA, cannasecurity.com
TESTING
Analytical 360 5776998, analytical360.com
Analytical 360 is Washington’s first cannabis analysis laboratory utilizing peer-reviewed HPLC methods for analysis of flowers, edibles, concentrates and more.
ReGen 7821 Fremont Ave N Seattle WA 98103, 973-3231, RegenSeattle. com
LAWYERS
Canna Law Group Seattle WA, 826-9371, cannabislawseattle.com
Helping Washington businesses navigate I-502 and medical cannabis law with corporate, licensing, and litigation services. Seattle, Spokane, & Vancouver offices.
Law Office of Elizabeth Mount 800 Fifth Ave, Suite 4100 Seattle WA 98104, 641-9019, mountdefense.com DUI? Consult with an attorney before taking the BAC test at the police station.
Law Office of Scott Lawrence PLLC 425488-8481, marijuanadui.com Emphasizing marijuana & drug DUI defense. Criminal defense attorney.
Pelley Law 119 First Ave S, Suite 206 Seattle WA 98104, 355-5527, pelleylawgroup.com Representing medical cannabis patients, growers and access points throughout Washington state.
Cannatest 855-4226628, cannatest.com
Cannatest is a cannabis testing laboratory providing high quality potency testing and safety screening for all cannabis products.
Goat Labs 360-5139377 This place tests weed for pesticides, mold and fungus.
Northwest Botanical Analysis 127 N 35th St Seattle WA 98103, 545-7233, nwbotanicalanalysis.com
