Marijuana is getting reviewed
Governor Jay Inslee examines law on medicinal marijuana
July 7, 2026
The State capital, Olympia Washington is taking a deeper look into the law of medicinal marijuana. Governor Jay Inslee is attempting to reevaluate the law and attempt to get it to coincide with Washington’s new recreational marijuana market. There was a lot of confusion with police and the public about what was or was not allowed, which stems the further defining of the law.
The provisions will create a voluntary registry of patients. In the beginning of next year this will help to eliminate the debatable gardens which have been provided to many thousands of people. The medical marijuana facilities that have a license to sell will be able to distribute to these patients as long as they possess an endorsement to sell medical marijuana. They could also participate in an operative which allows for dealing with at most four patients.
Washington is working on finding a legitimate way to give good proprietors an opportunity to get licensed for their marijuana gardens. In 1998 Washington State became one of the first states to approve using marijuana for its medical needs. The only concern here was that the initiative being passed did not allow for the commercial sale of marijuana.
Washington and Colorado are the first two states that made marijuana legal for sale as well as possession. In 2012 the initiative I-502 was voted in favor allowing for legalizing marijuana. The problem the state runs into is that there is such a high demand for the recreational drug and a low supply due to stores needing to be state certified.
The state is working to support the marijuana industry after the new law has been passed creating help for the medicinal users. The new law for patients in need of marijuana states they would be allowed to possess three ounces dry, 48 ounces of marijuana infused solids, 216 ounces of liquid, and 21 grams of concentrates.
In the state of Washington only people with a license can grow the drug. In the near future hopefully there will be an idea of how medicinal users can legally purchase the drug without any ramifications. This should also clear up any confusion with local authorities and apprehending citizens that are not in good keeping with the law.
Adam • May 15, 2015 at 6:28 PM
I did misstate the facts a tad: the bill passed has already passed, and it will actually become effective as a law on July 24 2015.
Adam • May 15, 2015 at 6:09 PM
This already happened, Inslee the Incompetant signed this into law over a week ago. Looks like Rick Scott is now not alone in Governors that defy logical reality.
“In the near future hopefully there will be an idea of how medicinal users can legally purchase the drug without any ramifications.” There already is according to this very bill, they will simply have to buy weed in recreational pot shops, it may or may not be deemed “medical”. They will simply be forced to pay 2-3 times to procure the same amount and now are less likely to be able to grow enough for themselves
This bill was called the Cannabis Patient Protection Act, and all it does is reduce the amount of medicine a patient can have by 87.5%, and reduce the number of plants they can grow by 73.3% percent. Of course a doctor can now prescribe UP to the previous prescription amount of 15 plants: but what the fuck do they know about growing weed! They are medical professionals who would have had to steer far clear of being anything close to an expert of that area.
Sentator Ann Rivers and Governor Inslee face serious negative karma in their live time for assaulting a peaceful patient population that was never supposed to be impacted by the bill that voters approved known as i502 in 2012. Such actions are illegal in pragmatic states like California and Arizona, where voter driven ballot initiatives can only be overturned by other voter driven ballot initiatives. The psuedo-democracy of Washington allows these tyrants to change the laws to benefit the large legal weed companies that are paying them and lobbying hard to oppress patient access and force them to buy their over priced and insanely taxed products. And they do this all without any engagement with the public voters who actually enabled i502 in the first place. Is this really democracy? The people did not ask for this…
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5052