https://www.seattlebusinessmag.com/...-states-14b-cannabis-industry-really-blooming
Washington is not an easy place to run a cannabis business. I believe the Rec law was flawed from the start and a betrayal of the people who worked their asses off to make cannabis legal. The state's relentless need for new tax revenue and the idea that cannabis could magically infuse the state with all the money it needs has tainted all the legislature's plans. Along with a wrong headed idea that Washington could be a model for cannabis legalization nation-wide has led to terrible policy decisions. This is what happens when people who know nothing of cannabis are put in charge of regulating it.
A friend of mine has a neighbor who works in Olympia. She's a regular bureaucrat, they stuck her working with cannabis licensing. She doesn't know anything about cannabis but she has to try her best to help people plan and run their businesses successfully. She's out of her depths, worked for the liquor control board previously. Without training or experience she's had to jump in and do her job. Helps explain why the planning and execution has been so poor. It is amusing to me that a state employee's job is to help growers figure out how to grow more cannabis but it's also depressing.
Washington is not an easy place to run a cannabis business. I believe the Rec law was flawed from the start and a betrayal of the people who worked their asses off to make cannabis legal. The state's relentless need for new tax revenue and the idea that cannabis could magically infuse the state with all the money it needs has tainted all the legislature's plans. Along with a wrong headed idea that Washington could be a model for cannabis legalization nation-wide has led to terrible policy decisions. This is what happens when people who know nothing of cannabis are put in charge of regulating it.
A friend of mine has a neighbor who works in Olympia. She's a regular bureaucrat, they stuck her working with cannabis licensing. She doesn't know anything about cannabis but she has to try her best to help people plan and run their businesses successfully. She's out of her depths, worked for the liquor control board previously. Without training or experience she's had to jump in and do her job. Helps explain why the planning and execution has been so poor. It is amusing to me that a state employee's job is to help growers figure out how to grow more cannabis but it's also depressing.