The Seattle Times reports. This market is geared to medical marijuana users. Additionally, this month the Washington State House introduced a bill to legalize marijuana and sell it in liquor stores. This bill has broad based support, at least in the Seattle area, but the Office of National Drug Control Policy has come out against it.
Notwithstanding the federal government's intractableness on this issue, these developments in Washington highlight the tensions between the two different paths to legalization. The major difference between treating marijuana as medicine and distributing it through doctors and pharmacies and by legalizing it as a recreational, but tolerable, drug is that there is not any real possibility of generating revenue from medical marijuana. Washington may be an experiment in how the two systems could co-exist.
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