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Excited about 2018

By JOE BUTLER EVERCANNABIS Writer There are some fancy cannabis retailers that offer the highest-end items for customers who don’t mind paying extra, especially when surrounded by elegant décor.

Some store business models are also designed so all prices are marked up quite high, which means the owners can take home a little more coin each month. Not that there’s anything wrong with this – the lure of decent money and high growth expectations for this newly legal industry are why many entrepreneurs are taking the plunge.

But there are different philosophies at The Green Nugget, a store off of Francis Road between Nevada and Market streets in Spokane.

Instead of spending money on fancy chandeliers and charging customers premium prices, The Green Nugget places greater priority on providing a wide amount of choices at affordable prices that hopefully keep people coming back.

“We see some stores marking things up 4 to 6 times higher than they need to,” said Matthew Hawkins, director of operations and marketing.

“Realistically, it should only be three times at the most: one mark-up for the producer, one for taxes, one for the store.”

He joined the management team last spring when owner Scott O’Neil asked him to “re-imagine” the store.

Part of his focus has been on expanding the shop’s inventory, which is now considered the largest in Spokane County, and the second-largest in Washington, according to Leafly, a cannabis industry directory. The 3,000-square-foot location provides 150 strains plus a significant selection of edibles, glassware, topicals, solventless concentrates and more.

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“We especially look for local vendors who grow pesticide-free products, focus on helping the community and local charities, and try to work with compostable or environmentally-friendly materials,” Hawkins said. “We carry three times as much product as other local stores, and really try to have highquality items and the freshest items.”

The store has invested in full-sized coolers that preserve and chill items like infused beverages and temperature-sensitive concentrates.

Hawkins also has put effort into improving procedures, including better product tracking and better cameras to deter customer or employee theft.

“I brought up a guy I knew and trusted from Texas to fix the ordering and inventory system,” Hawkins said. “He didn’t know anything about marijuana but helped us improve what we were doing.”

This focus also coordinated well with an audit by the Washington Liquor and Cannabis Board last fall.

Mikhail Carpenter from the LCB said these audits examine everything financially related to a business, including accounting and inventory, to make sure retailers comply with state regulations.

He said the audit found several serious deficiencies including incorrect labeling, improper record keeping, and unpaid taxes and penalties. It ultimately resulted in a $27,334 fine for the shop, but Hawkins said the staff appreciated the opportunity to examine all aspects of the business.

“They looked at everyone’s backgrounds, our books, our sales, everything from top to bottom,” he said.

Hawkins said the owners and managers continue to make sure employees are treated well, since this approach leads to more satisfied, loyal customers.

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Employees make $15/hour, can keep tips, have access to product samples and discounts, and will soon have health insurance. The Green Nugget is also working on creating a pool for employees to share sick hours.

“We try to give back to them as much as we can,” he said. “At our Christmas party, we handed out a lot of bonuses.”

The store has high hopes for 2018. In spring, it plans to relocate further west along Francis, closer to Division, at the former Preferred Medical location.

Along with a larger showroom, there will be a secure inventory cage and a secure outdoor employee break area.

“We’re all about the safety of our people, and they’ve also told us this is important,” Hawkins said.

Already, the new philosophies and actions seem to be having a positive effect.

Overall revenue had been trending downward in early summer, but by fall was on the rise, a trend that is continuing in winter.

Hawkins was especially excited by December’s performance – The Green Nugget was open on Christmas, and he said there was a line out the door pretty much all day.

“We’re hearing from vendors who want to work with us again because of everything we’ve been doing, and some new companies as well,” he said. “We’ve proven we’re a powerhouse, and are all about customers and producer/processors.”

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Looking Forward ...

Cannabis momentum still growing

If you’re reading this, we’re all fine here. How are you?

(10 points for you if you said “Hey, that’s from ‘Star Wars,’” and chuckled a little.)

In this particular galaxy, however, we have been getting questions all throughout January about what’s going to happen to not only legal cannabis but to our publication, based on U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ recent directive to abolish a federal guideline prioritizing prosecutions of marijuana.

The answer is that we’ll continue educating, informing and entertaining our readers, and let them know what’s happening with this new industry at a local, state and national level. We’ve been doing this almost two years now, and still have a surplus of interesting topics and individuals to share.

We’re encouraged what Gov. Jay Inslee and other elected officials have been saying about the importance of continuing commerce while resisting federal efforts to disrupt state-sanctioned businesses.

Legal cannabis provides jobs, tax revenue, and has been voted on by a majority of Washingtonians.

California and Nevada are also not very likely to un-do their new and potentially lucrative markets that took them each more than a year to come online. Trend-watchers also see a push for more states becoming interested in loosening restrictions for medical or recreational pot, rather than more crackdowns.

Some pro-cannabis advocates I’ve been talking to said that Sessions’ declaration actually can be seen as a positive, by clarifying that marijuana was federally illegal in 2017 and remains exactly the same in 2018. No “under certain circumstances we won’t do anything” gray areas anymore.

Yes, there are going to be “what ifs,” like if U.S. attorneys in different districts of a state issue different opinions or enforcement strategies. There might be some interesting court battles ahead dealing with state vs. federal rights, the kind of stuff that legal scholars could still be mulling decades from now.

In this issue, we’ll be taking a closer look at how state officials and industry groups in Washington are responding to possible impact from Sessions’ decision, and how everyone pretty much plans to continue business as usual. We’ll also include some suggestions about how any of us can get more involved in future discussions and decisions, of not just cannabis but other current political topics.

Joe Butler, Managing Editor

Megan Roberts, opposite page and Tom Law above, are two employees at The Green Nugget.

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Marijuana and marijuana-infused products are legal for Washington residents 21 years and older. It has intoxicating effects and may be habit forming. It can impair concentration, coordination and judgment. There may be health risks associated with consumption.

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Cannabis chefs cooking up

NEW LEGAL QUESTIONS

BY RICK MISTERLY EVERCANNABIS Correspondent When Initiative 502 became law in 2012, many Washingtonians celebrated and looked forward to a future where cannabis would become a legitimate aspect of our culture, and all taboos and prohibitions against it would be gone forever.

Since the state put a firm emphasis on safety and restricted usage to ages 21 and up, the hope was that Washington’s new marketplace could represent great freedom for adults to buy and consume once-illegal products freely without fear of arrest.

But as people learned more what was and wasn’t legal, it turned out that there were, and still are, some gray areas.

For instance, people are only allowed to consume it in their homes, but legally can’t grow it there, except for certain medical exceptions.

Users have also taken the opportunity to look for other ways to ingest it besides smoking or basic edibles like brownies. While commercial edibles generally have benefits such as precise THC levels -- an improvement from homemade recipes with approximate amounts -- many of these items still remain in the “sweet” or “novelty” categories.

However, food fans who also like to ingest cannabis continue to search for ways to enjoy it, including as part of a meal.

Several chefs who are also curious about this newly legal ingredient in recipes have cooked special dinners at restaurants or private locations. But these also land squarely in the gray areas of current law.

Brian E. Smith, communications director with the Washington Liquor and Cannabis Board, said cannabis-themed events are not legal in any establishment that’s normally opened to the public, including restaurants.

“Consumption of cannabis in a public place is prohibited by law,” he said.

Sharing of cannabis, however, is legal due to a 2017 who supply the cannabis for the class, otherwise it could seem I’m selling without a license.” change to state law, so individuals can still legally invite their adult friends over and cook them a free Flickenger emphasized the importance of being meal containing cannabis. honest with the LCB about a chef’s intentions since Cooking with marijuana also requires more skill regulators look at each event on a case-by-case basis. than throwing some leaves into the recipe. Some food If you want a cannabis meal but don’t want to make ingredients can enhance the effects, while others can it yourself, you can also search for a caterer who block it. Uncooked leaves might just taste, well, leafy. is familiar with the cannabis cooking process and The flavor or aroma may be masked in some cases, current state law. while in others, it may overpower everything.

Smith said there are rules for hiring a caterer/chef Rick Flickenger is a Washington chef who teaches as well. private classes in the “If the dinner was to be held Seattle area about in a private home, some things the science of using to consider are that there can na cannabis in food in marijua h it w g be no charging for the meals, in k l o il o k C order to enhance the ore s m s as the law is specific about not e ir u culinary experience also req leaves e m charging if people are sharing o s but not put diners wing food an thro e marijuana,” he said. “Plus, h t m o S e. into THC comas. e he recip the meal cannot exceed the t c n o t a h in n Before teaching his an e c s t possession limits allowed for n ie n ca first class, he made ingred others e il each adult attendee, and there h w , cts the effort to contact leaves the effe d can be no private marijuana e k o o the LCB to discuss Unc leafy. clubs.” lock it. , b ll e w , what he had planned taste t s e ju b t y a Smith said until event laws migh and to make sure roma m e il vor or a change and cannabis use a h fl w everything was done , e s h T case is normalized, people may in some properly. er verpow masked o y also want to consider asking a m “I have very s, it in other their city or county officials if . g in specific written everyth there are any other local laws permission from regarding private dinners where them about how I cannabis is served or used. can run my cannabis “The best bet for someone classes, and it took months to get that from them,” he considering doing this is to speak with a private said. “Those guidelines include that classes must take place in a private home, everyone must be 21 or older attorney to ensure that they are operating within the law,” he said. and I check IDs. Plus my clients have to be the ones

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NEW RULES FOR SPOKANE-AREA CANNABIS FARMERS

By KIP HILL The Spokesman-Review Spokane County pollution regulators have approved a new set of fees and rules for cannabis growers in what they described as an attempt to curb costs of dealing with mounting odor complaints.

The Spokane County Regional Clean Air Agency’s board of directors voted unanimously in early January to require a registration fee for producers and processors that will cover some of the costs of enforcing state regulations on nuisance smells. Those regulations include a requirement for outdoor farms to inform the agency when they’re harvesting and a mandate that air pollution control equipment be used for indoor grows.

A handful of growers spoke against the new rules, saying they add an unfair fee structure on top of an already over-regulated industry.

Al French, chairman of the board, said the new fees were necessary because of continued complaints and what he said was inaction by some businesses to lessen the smell.

Growers say it’s unfair to impose registration fees on all businesses when only a few farms draw most of the complaints. The agency reported there were 16 odor complaints related to marijuana in November, the most recent month for which data was available. Thirteen of those targeted one facility.

As a result of Thursday’s vote, businesses that grow, package and manufacture secondary products, such as oils and edibles, will be required to pay one-time registration fees totaling between $525 and $2,230 for the first year, based on their size and whether their production occurs in a controlled, indoor environment or outside.

Kim Hoff, owner of Flying High in Otis Orchards, said the additional fees would continue to hamstring her business, which is struggling to pay rent and break even.

“We have an indoor/outdoor facility, but with prices so low, we can’t even afford to turn on our lights,” Hoff said.

“So now we are an outdoor facility.”

Hoff will have to pay a $980 fee to apply for an exemption, as an existing business operating both indoors and outdoors, from the agency rules, in addition to the one-time registration fee based on the size of her operation.

Aaron Juhl, owner of Funky Farms in Deer Park, is limited to 2,000 feet of plant canopy space, while midrange businesses can grow up to five times that, and the largest businesses up to 30,000 square feet, or more than 10 times as much. The largest producers will pay less than double the registration fees of their smaller competitors, according to new rules.

Crystal Oliver, co-owner of Washington’s Finest Cannabis in Deer Park and a member of the Cannabis Farmers Council, said she was most concerned about the need to report harvesting schedules, which could fall into the hands of the public and imperil the safety of crops and farmers.

Board members delayed a decision on how much businesses will pay in future years to support enforcement over confusion about what farms that begin growing indoors then move plants outside will have to pay.

French said he believed any revisions made to the fee schedule would likely mean farmers would pay less, not more, by potentially changing the category that existing businesses fall into. In addition to the initial registration fee, farmers will be charged an annual assessment that will cost smaller, indoor growers $528 annually, while the largest firms growing both indoors and outdoors will pay nearly $5,000.

Oliver was dubious.

“I have never heard of a regulatory agency lowering fees. They don’t have a reputation for lowering fees,” she said. “I think they’ll figure out a way to spend the money.”

The agency expects to collect close to $172,050 from existing marijuana businesses in the county to cover enforcement expenses next year, based on a presentation made to board members Thursday. The cost of enforcing the nuisance odor ordinance, including site visits, data management and other outreach, is expected to add up to between $145,600 and $263,900.

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THREE CONVICTIONS OF ‘KETTLE FALLS FIVE’ THROWN OUT

By JIM CAMDEN The Spokesman-Review Three defendants in a Charged with several federal drug controversial marijuana prosecution violations, the Greggs and Firestackthat drew nationwide attention had Harvey were convicted in early 2015 their convictions wiped out by a of growing more than 50 but fewer federal judge. than 100 plants. Rice later sentenced Rolland Gregg to 33 months in Members of what was once called prison, and Michelle Gregg and the Kettle Falls Five – Rhonda Lee Firestack-Harvey to a year and a day.

Firestack-Harvey, Michelle Lynn Gregg and Roland Mark Gregg – had But their attorneys appealed, and convictions vacated and charges late last year, federal prosecutors told dismissed in early January by U.S. the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals District Judge Thomas Rice. that they couldn’t continue with the case because Congress pulled money Federal prosecutors had asked for from federal prosecutions in states the dismissal because of “a cloud that had legalized marijuana in 2014, of Congress’ suspension of funding and has continued that restriction in authority” to continue with the each year since. appeal.

With the case sent back down The Greggs, Firestack-Harvey, her to Rice, the judge agreed with husband Larry Harvey and a family prosecutor’s motion to dismiss the friend Jason Zucker, were arrested charges and vacate the conviction, on federal marijuana charges after but without a pair of raids prejudice, on a remote which means farm northwest if Congress of Kettle Falls changes its in 2012. At the mind on time, medical Federal prosecutors prosecuting marijuana had asked for the federal was legal in marijuana Washington, dismissal because of cases in and the group states that “a cloud of Congress’ said they were have legalized growing for suspension of funding the drug, their own it could be authority” to continue use. But all refiled. marijuana with the appeal. was illegal Bevan under federal Maxey, law, and attorney for prosecutors Michelle contended they Gregg, said were profiting the judge’s from the drug. order gives the three defendants a chance to go Larry Harvey died of cancer back to lives “as normal as can be before trial, and Zucker accepted a expected” and hopes any effort to plea bargain to be a witness for the resurrect the case will be rejected. prosecution.

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State wants to hear cannabis comments

By SARAH BAIN

EVERCANNABIS Correspondent

Marijuana legislation has been one of the key issues on the Washington Legislature’s priority list over the last few years, but this current session may be a bit different.

First, federal priorities are changing. In early January, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions rolled back Obamaera guidelines allowing states to create legal marijuana marketplaces without federal interference.

But at the same time, the state industry may have matured enough that larger structural changes may not be as vital as in past sessions.

“This is the first time in 10 years that we don’t have legislative priorities for this session,” said Brian Smith, communications director for Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board. “The industry is running now, and so defined groups are setting their own agendas.”

WSLCB is still available to be called upon by state agencies and individuals to provide information and opinions, but Smith added, “there’s a lot of marijuana fatigue.”

With Sessions’ announcement about possible enforcement changes, however, it seems legal cannabis in Washington has more unknowns.

It’s hard to know what the outcome is going to be with this possibly pending federalstate conflict, but people who are concerned are encouraged to speak up and let lawmakers know what’s on their minds.

HERE’S HOW TO GET YOUR VOICE HEARD

• Be specific.

Visit the Washington State Legislature website to find your legislative and congressional district and the senators and representatives to contact. (app.leg.wa.gov/ districtfinder/)

• Be polite but firm.

• Get to know your state legislator.

• Pay attention to the legislative calendar.

This regular session ends on March 8 so your legislator will spend most of his or her time in Olympia until then.

When they aren’t in session, you can likely visit him or her at their home offices.

• Call, don’t email.

If you are just voicing concern about a bill, then a phone call is a great way to ask questions and get more information. Emails are generally considered less effective.

• Tell a personal story.

If you are interested in sharing your own personal story, this is the opportunity: Did medical marijuana help ease your chronic pain?

What experiences have led you to the opinion that recreational marijuana needs to remain legalized? Making a personal appointment to share this information also is encouraged.

• Do your research.

If a bill is being discussed, learn more about its specifics, and how your targeted legislator generally votes on these types of issues. Sometimes, writing a few notes out ahead of time is helpful for complex issues.

If you are calling to ask your legislator to vote yes or no on a specific bill, state that directly.

If you disagree with your legislator, remain civil. They are likely just as passionate about their position as you are about yours. Sticking to the facts is the best way to get your point across.

• Write a letter.

After a phone call or inperson meeting, follow up with a thank-you note, you will then be remembered when you call or visit again.

NORML, norml.org/, is a national organization whose mission is “to move public opinion sufficiently to legalize the responsible use of marijuana by adults, and to serve as an advocate for consumers to assure they have access to high quality marijuana that is safe, convenient and affordable.” Its website provides updates on federal and state legislation, plus its supported initiatives.

Washington Cannabusiness Association, www.wacannabusiness. org/, is a member-based organization that represents licensed and regulated cannabis businesses.

Where to go for more cannabis information: Washington State Legislature, Leg.wa.gov, provides information about the status of introduced bills, including cannabis topics, even if you don’t know a particular number.

Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board, lcb.wa.gov, enforces cannabis laws and provides consumers with information about licensing and education.

The Cannabis Alliance, www. thecannabisalliance. us/, is a memberbased association that advances the cannabis industry. Its website provides information about how consumers can take action.

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In fact, according to a study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, regular cannabis users get busy 20 percent more often than those who don’t partake.

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BOND calls itself a cannabis infused “sensual topical oil,” designed to deliver a “more intense and localized sensation,” which “enhances and accentuates a woman’s innate sexuality and heightens her pleasure.”

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By LIZZI MOSS

EVERCANNABIS Correspondent

Macaroni and Cheese has been a staple of American cuisine for pretty much its whole history: the earliest-known recipe of cheese over pasta goes back to 1769, possibly brought back by colonial visitors to France.

Its popularity as a meal for kids exploded in 1937 when Kraft put noodles and cheesy powder in a box and made it easy for anyone to

make. Today, the love for mac and cheese is felt by every age. Adults still fill their plates high at parties or potlucks, and many restaurants make it with exotic cheese or pair it with certain beers. Because it’s so simple to make, you can eat it right away or make a batch and save it for later. Adding cannabis to a grown-up recipe can also make your mac and cheese even more of a slam dunk.

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Preheat oven to 425. Add full bag pasta to boiling water with canola oil and salt.

Boil until soft. Drain.

In a medium pan on low heat, add butter and let melt. Add milk and flour and whisk. Start adding cheese slowly. Continue stirring and add in your seasonings. Once your cheese sauce is mixed well and the cheese is fully melted add noodles and cover them completely in cheese mixture.

Put pasta in casserole dish. Top with more sharp cheddar. Sprinkle Panko bread crumbs evenly over the top. Bake at 425 degrees for 5 minutes to brown.

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Ritzville-area cannabis shop part of region’s evolving business scene

By Shawn Vestal The Spokesman-Review

TOKIO WEIGH STATION – It looms above the freeway about 45 miles west of Spokane: a literal sign of the times.

It used to say RESTAURANT. Now it says CANNABIS. For more than 30 years, Templin’s Country Corner has been run by Gary and Vernette Templin, as an oasis for gas and food between Ritzville and Spokane.

This year, it will be taken over by a Kennewick couple, Steve and Jessica Lee, who have been running a marijuana store in a building on the property since November 2016.

While the bones of the enterprise will remain gas sales, an RV park and a restaurant, a new focus on marijuana tourism is what the Lees hope will keep the landmark freeway stop in business going forward.

It’s one of the most visible examples of the way that legalized marijuana, and the economic opportunity around it, has changed rural Washington in ways that confound tradition and expectations.

The freeway stop could eventually become, Steve Lee hopes, “a cannabis Leavenworth” – one built directly on a foundation of the old-fashioned freewayexit truck stop.

“Everyone knows where it’s at,” Lee said in early January. “Everyone’s stopped there at least a couple times. Everyone’s parents stopped there. A lot of people remember when it was a Stuckey’s.”

The truck-stop weed store is just one of the ways that Lee is upending convention when it comes to the newly legal industry. He recently was sworn in as a new member of the Kennewick City Council, following an election in which his identity as “the pot guy” was brought up continuously. He defeated an incumbent and was chosen as mayor pro tem by his fellow council members.

All this in a city and county that have put moratoriums on new pot enterprises.

For the Templins, selling the Country Corner means a chance to retire. Not long ago, a spiffy new Love’s truck stop opened in Ritzville and added to the many challenges of making a go of it out at the Tokio exit, which even Gary Templin calls “the middle of nowhere.”

If the Templins had reservations about bringing a newly legalized marijuana business onto their property, they have overcome them. Vernette said that she has come to know people who get relief for

A giant sign towers above Templin’s Country Corner, a fuel station and diner at the Tokio exit off I-90 near Ritzville, shown Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018. The station has struggled to survive the seasonal slow periods and the addition of newer and bigger convenience stores in nearby Ritzville. (Jesse Tinsley / The Spokesman-Review) medical problems from cannabis products, and that the Lees have been reliable tenants – renovating the outbuilding that was a former fruit stand and paying the rent on time.

And Gary, who is 75, has seen some of his assumptions overturned as well.

“We’re amazed at the customers they get,” he said.

“I thought they’d be long-haired hippie types, but they’re older than me. And I’m pretty damn old.”

‘Time to help somebody’ Gary Templin grew up in Ritzville in a family whose name is well-known on a variety of regional businesses. His parents ran the Circle T restaurant in Ritzville, and he later was involved in the North Shore Motel in Coeur d’Alene with his uncle, Bob Templin.

Duane Hagadone would buy out the hotel in a hostile takeover in 1983 and build the Coeur d’Alene Resort at the site.

A few years later, Gary and Vernette bought the gas station at the Tokio exit, which was then a Stuckey’s truck stop. The Country Corner sold gas, operated a store with snacks and drinks, and served hamburgers and hearty breakfasts in the cafe. There were a handful of sites for RVs and tent camping.

For anyone traveling on Interstate 90 in the past three decades, it has been a familiar site and last resort for gas, food and bathroom stops.

Gary Templin found certain similarities between the seasonal nature of his new venture and his former one.

“It’s a lot like Coeur d’Alene was,” he said. “It’s big in the summertime. You wonder what you’re doing out here in the winter.”

In recent years, he has been trying to put up a bigger sign farther east, to catch the eyes of travelers a little earlier and try to draw them off the freeway, but he’s been unable to work around regulatory obstacles with the state. Between that, changes in the trucking industry and the nearby Love’s, and the fact that the Templins have been eying retirement, they found themselves open to the idea of trying something new when the Lees approached them in 2016.

Their proposal was to renovate a small outbuilding on the gas station property that had been a fruit stand in past years. That worked well enough that they agreed to sell the operation to the Lees.

Gary Templin said part of his motivation has been to help young business owners get established.

“We had help” getting started, he said. “I felt it was maybe time for me to help somebody get their start.”

‘We grew, we grew, we grew’ Steve Lee said he and his wife found themselves going into Washington’s newly legal marijuana industry out of need: He’d been laid off from his job as a museum fundraiser, they were couch surfing and they needed an income.

With a nest egg of $5,000, they opened the first Green2Go medical marijuana business outlet in Kennewick in 2012 and evolved into recreational cannabis after legalization. Like the marijuana industry statewide, it took off and hasn’t slowed down.

“We opened our store and we grew, we grew, we grew, we grew,” Lee said. “We drank from the fire hose as well as we could.”

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They moved into a new space in Kennewick relatively quickly and remain the only weed store in town – because the city banned them. The Lees then looked to the Tokio spot as a different kind of venture. With their town store, the regular clientele are nearby and shop frequently. The Tokio store is a different dynamic – slow to grow and reliant upon the “roadside attraction” nature of the location.

“It’s a lot more like selling cars than selling produce,” Lee said. “It’s a slow-build clientele.”

They replaced the RESTAURANT sign with the CANNABIS sign in March, and that began to boost business. In the year to come, as the Lees take over the rest of the business operation, they’re looking to build a kind of “companion business ecosystem” built around marijuana.

In the near term, that includes changes in the cafe – which they plan to turn into a gourmet grilled-cheese eatery – and continuing the gas and RV business. Lee said they’re considering putting up some tiny houses as a “millennial-friendly” draw and, if all goes well, looking eventually to the possibility of having a festival space or even a drivein movie theater, all built around the core business.

“That cannabis store is just an excellent anchor tenant,” Lee said.

Much of the future plan will depend on how well the business does. The Lees have been investing heavily in their stores in the past couple of years and are hopeful those investments will pay off.

The Templins, meanwhile, are looking forward to a retirement and passing on their business in a way they might never have imagined when they first bought that Stuckey’s back in 1986.

“I’ve learned a lot in the past year,” Vernette said.

At the Green2Go cannabis shop at the Tokio exit of I-90 near Ritzville, Wash., Caleb Tolman, left, and Steve Gaulke, right, wait for customers in the small shop Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018.

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While it is normal to cough after taking a big hit of your who have a tendency to seasonal allergies are going to be affected by cannabis, some users report continuous coughing, wheezing, it,” Kernerman said. vomiting and rashes. Is this just bad bud, or something “...marijuana He treats more people for cannabis allergies who work in more serious, like an actual allergy? the industry vs. people who use marijuana recreationally or is a weed and it As marijuana use becomes more mainstream, people for medicinal purposes. The first group likely are seeking produces pollen and are reporting allergy-like symptoms that are truly help because they are exposed to much higher amounts of cannabis on a regular basis. allergies. people who have a “I walked in today and my nose immediately plugged These allergies usually manifest in one of two ways. tendency to seasonal up,” said Sam Calvert, owner of Green Star Cannabis, “Of my two most recent patients, one was having standard allergies are going who says he has a severe cannabis allergy. “I smelled allergy symptoms: runny nose, watery eyes, sneezing,” he the Pineapple Express the other day and thought I had a said. “The other, who was involved in handling the buds, had a to be affected by it,” cold for two days.” contact reaction.”

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Calvert has had allergies all his life but about four or five Contact reactions can include redness where the marijuana years ago noticed that they started to get much worse and touched the body, or rashes, itching or swelling. affected his sinuses and lungs.

Kernerman suggests people with those types of reactions wear “I’m basically allergic to everything green,” he said. protective clothing or gloves while working with the product. For those who Dr. Steven Kernerman of the Spokane Allergy & Asthma Clinic says allergies have symptoms more like hay fever, he says allergy medications may help. to pot aren’t that unusual, although most people’s aren’t so severe.

“We would usually suggest to them taking an antihistamine,” he said.

“It sounds obvious but marijuana is a weed and it produces pollen and people Calvert, the owner of Green Star, says products like Nasacort sometimes work

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for him, but the older he gets, the more resistant his allergies seem to become.

He has even become nauseous after long periods of exposure to the products he sells.

Kernerman says nausea or vomiting after marijuana exposure or use is fairly uncommon and is probably caused by other issues in most cases. Some may suspect their allergies can be caused by insecticides, fertilizers or impurities used in the production process, but Kernerman doesn’t feel like that is the culprit in the cases he has seen.

In Calvert’s situation, his physical struggle is his employees’ gain. Because of his allergies, Calvert is limited in how he can quality test the products he sells.

“I put everything under a microscope,” he said. After he does a very thorough physical examination, he has a product review form his employees fill out.

“I dole out the samples every Friday and send them home with my employees,” to fill out the form, he said.

Kernerman says he doesn’t get a lot of people coming to him for cannabis allergies, but he has seen more lately than before it was legal.

Calvert says he occasionally hears from a customer who had a reaction to a product containing marijuana. He has useful advice for them.

“I think people should take it more serious than I do… It’s extremely difficult to deal with. So I would say be careful. Start slow: buy a gram at a time, don’t buy an ounce,” he said. “They tell you to paint a corner first when painting a room so you know how it’s going to look, and I would say do the same thing, try just a little first and see how you react.”

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Washington AG says state cannabis system works

By LINDA BALL

EVERCANNABIS Correspondent

The paradox was not lost on Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson.

He was the keynote speaker at the Washington State Cannabis Alliance Summit, the day after U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded Obama-era Justice Department guidelines on marijuana commerce.

“You guys know how to time your conference,” he said to the room full of cannabis supporters at the Crowne Plaza in SeaTac Jan. 5.

Ferguson said he had a completely different speech prepared, but with the announcement Jan. 4, everything changed.

“I just have such tremendous frustration with the Attorney General,” he said.

Ferguson said he had no idea that the Sessions decision was coming.

He and Gov. Jay Inslee had previously requested a meeting with Sessions, but Sessions refused.

Last summer he wrote to Inslee and Ferguson, expressing his concern about Washington State’s marijuana laws, citing an old report, with many misstatements, Ferguson said.

Furthermore, Ferguson said the January announcement was presented in a short memo rather than a well-thought-out policy document.

The 2009 Ogden memo, which directed U.S. Attorneys to take a hands-off approach with state medical-marijuana patients - 29 states at the time had legal medical laws – was rescinded as well.

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, left, and Gov. Jay Inslee discuss priorities for the year.

Photo by Rachel Sun/The Spokesman-Review Ferguson said Washington has “Internally, my team has been a legal cannabis system that’s preparing for this for five years,” working, and the state also has bigger Ferguson said. “My team is very problems, like the opioid crisis, which good. We’ve sued the Trump takes the lives of two people every administration 19 times.” day in Washington State.

The crowd, which Another contentious included processors, “What I can do is issue is whether cities, retailers and others in the industry, defend Washington State counties or other local jurisdictions can ban loved that. law.

I take that very, the sale of marijuana “What I can do is defend Washington very seriously. The best in their communities.

Ferguson said State law. I take that attorneys in my office municipalities do very, very seriously. have the authority, The best attorneys in work on this issue.” but it has to be my office work on very specific in the this issue.”

wording. This is OK, Ferguson said, because local bans help keep the federal government from stepping in. None of these jurisdictional cases have gone to the Washington State Supreme Court yet.

In closing, Ferguson said he receives daily memos about the cannabis industry.

“This is critical to me and our office,” he said.

He felt the state was more vulnerable in the first year of the Trump administration, and that everyone was able to pull through.

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WA Cannabis Summit hopes for changes in ag, medicine

By LINDA BALL

EVERCANNABIS Correspondent

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he annual Cannabis Alliance Summit also included a variety of panels, including “Cannabis – the Next Great Agricultural Industry,” which agreed on a goal to have cannabis be eventually recognized as an agricultural product.

Cindy Cooper, program manager for the Washington State Department of Agriculture’s plant services program, recommended the growers follow best practices of using clean plants from clean mother stock, which can ensure crops remain free of viruses and diseases.

She also said it’s critical that all employees at producers clean and sanitize clothing and shoes regularly in growing areas in order to prevent contamination. This is a common greenhouse practice but isn’t always enforced in the cannabis world.

Dr. Andrew Corbin, senior agronomist for Impact Bioenergy, said that the cannabis industry could benefit from using digestive waste for power and using reclaimed water.

Another popular panel was “Therapeutic Use and Study of Cannabis,” which included Dr. Sunil Aggarwal, an integrative pain, palliative care and rehabilitation physician in private practice at SageMED, a clinic in Bellevue. He said two studies, one in Germany and one in the U.K., showed that 1,000 mg a day of CBD (cannabidiol), proved helpful to patients diagnosed with paranoia-schizophrenia.

CBD was also helpful getting people off of the prescription drugs Cymbalta and Clonazepam, he said. Aggarwal also shared a study using CBD to treat addiction that indicated that 400-800 mg of CBD can help combat heroin withdrawal and related side effects.

A.C. Braddock, CEO of Eden Labs in Seattle, said cannabis is full of nutrients and should be marketed as a food with medicinal value.

Dr. Amanda Reiman, secretary of the International Cannabis Farmers Association and head of community relations for Flow Kana, has centered her research on cannabis as a substitute for opiates and believes that medically trained dispensary employees can fill a useful role as health service providers.

Her research included a survey of 350 people, and found that 53 percent were able to use cannabis to replace alcohol dependency, and 75 percent were able to replace pharmaceuticals with cannabis. Research indicated less risk of dependence, less negative side effects and a general effectiveness of cannabis.

“This is not a gateway drug, rather an exit drug,” Reiman said.

Another presenter was Randy Simmons, the former deputy director of the Washington State Cannabis and Liquor Board. He left when his wife was diagnosed with stage-three breast cancer. Her treatment included chemotherapy, radiation and a double mastectomy. Simmons started to do his own research and found that cannabis oil helps to relieve her pain from neuropathy. He said cannabis should be removed as a schedule I drug, so the medical community can legally study it.

“We need to move toward a direction of the normalization of this product, which got this stigma because Richard Nixon hated hippies,” Simmons said.

Dr. Nephi Stella has been studying the therapeutic value of cannabinoidbased molecules for 20 years.

He said cannabinoids have antiinflammatory and anti-seizure properties and have helped young people with seizures. His research includes using cannabinoids for the treatment of brain cancer, which he said can kill certain types of cancer cells. Cannabinoid compounds would help with many diseases. The problem is, until it’s legal everywhere it’s difficult to do university research.

“Right now it’s either the best thing in the world, or it’s the devil,” Stella said. “There’s a tremendous amount of research that needs to be done.”

Far left, Danielle Rosellison, board chair of the Cannabis Alliance, discusses the state of the industry at the Washington Cannabis Summit. One of the summit’s panels discussed agricultural topics.

Upper right, Panelists included, from left, Kevin Jodrey, Andrew Corbin, Cindy Cooper and Mowgli Holmes.

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CANNABIS NEWS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY

BEER MARKETER LOOKING TOWARD CANNABIS

NBA URGED TO ALLOW MEDICAL USE

MIKE TYSON OPENING 40-ACRE CALIFORNIA MARIJUANA FARM

RAIDS BUST GROWERS IN THREE COUNTIES

CHICAGO – Chris Burggraeve, former chief marketing for Anheuser-Busch, has become an active investor in and promoter of cannabis companies.

He recently joined the advisory board of the Green Rush Group, which hopes to provide information and products nationally when marijuana products are more legal.

He also is a co-founder of Toast, which makes pre-rolled joints.

He suggests that beer companies should become involved in cannabis products.

“It will all merge and crossfertilize and fuse -- not because the companies want it, but because the consumers want it,” Burggraeve said.

The alcohol industry is starting to move in this direction.

In October, Constellation Brands, which sells Corona, announced plans to invest in Canopy Growth, a Canadian seller of medical cannabis products.

“This is one of the fastest-growing categories globally,” he said. “Why? Because people want it. When consumers want something, you ignore it at your peril.”

The Belgium native left AnnheuserBusch about five years ago and has been consulting, teaching, and investing, especially in ‘disruptive’ products or service, such as cannabis.

He compares the potential of the industry to where craft beer was 20 years ago. Many investors ignored the beer boom, thinking that small-time brewers couldn’t compete against larger players.

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CENTRALIA – Authorities in King, Thurston and Grays Harbor counties arrested 44 people and confiscated more than $80 million worth of illegally-grown marijuana plants in late November.

An investigation led by the Grays Harbor County Drug Task Force revealed a variety of indoor grow operations, many tended by Chinese citizens About 50 search warrants led to 32,449 unregistered plants, plus the confiscation of 26 vehicles, $440,000 in cash and a variety of gold and guns.

Chief Criminal Deputy Steve Shumate from the Grays Harbor County Sheriffs Office said this investigation may be connected to illegal marijuana growing operations on the West Coast. Similar arrests involve Chinese nationals took place this fall in northern California, and one suspect was believed to take his product to Seattle.

The Lewis County Joint Narcotic Enforcement team said additional suspects have been identified and more warrants are planned. The county has shut down five illegal grows and seized 6,000 plants in 2017.

The current investigation began when citizens reported the strong smell of marijuana from homes in Elma, Hoquiam, Aberdeen and McCleary.

Authorities believe the suspects were buying homes with cash, growing and selling plants, and using the cash to fund other criminal enterprises, possibly on the East Coast.

Source: Chicago-Tribune

Commissioner David Stern believes medicinal marijuana use by players should be allowed, but the league isn’t ready to allow it for recreational use.

Stern was interviewed by ex-NBA player Al Harrington for the website Uninterrupted’s documentary “Concept of Cannabis.” Stern said he thought there was “universal agreement that marijuana for medical purposes should be completely legal.”

Adam Silver, who replaced Stern as commissioner in 2014, has said he is interested in studying more about the safety of medicinal marijuana.

But Stern, who spent 30 years as commissioner, seemed ready to go a step further in his interview.

“I think we have to change the Collective Bargaining Agreement and let you do what is legal in your state,” he said. “If marijuana is now in the process of being legalized, I think you should be allowed to do what’s legal in your state.”

Marijuana is listed as a prohibited substance on the league’s anti-drug program, and players can be fined or suspended for multiple positive tests.

“While Commissioner Silver has said that we are interested in better understanding the safety and efficacy of medical marijuana, our position remains unchanged regarding the use by current NBA players of marijuana for recreational purposes,” NBA spokesman Mike Bass said.

Mike Tyson, a longtime cannabis advocate, recently broke ground on a marijuana complex in California City Half or the 40-acre property will include 20 acres for growing. The other half will include a hydro-feed plant and supply store, an extraction facility, an edible factory, a “glamping” campground, cabins and an amphitheater.

Though Tyson is more known for his boxing, he does have a history with marijuana. In his memoir released in 2013, he said he regualarly enjoyed getting high before fights. He was also fined $200,000 for testing positive for marijuana in 2000. He also was arrested for cocaine possession and sentenced to jail for rape.

The property will be called Tyson Ranch, owned by Tyson and two business partners. The city is about 110 miles north of Los Angeles in the desert.

Tyson said the growing area will include research on different strains that can better help people with their medical needs.

Recreational marijuana is now legal in California, and many experts expect to see more commercial activity and investments.

Other celebrities have endorsed, invested in or put their name and likeness on marijuana strains or paraphernalia, but Tyson is the first professional boxer to enter the market.

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Tribal officials plan to begin selling in early February at a temporary facility, under the name High Point LLC. It will be overseen by the tribe’s Noo-Kayet Development Corporation.

Plans for a permanent facility at the same spot are in the works and construction could take place by 2019, said Chris Placentia, Noo-Kayet CEO. Eventually, the tribe may want to relocate an indoor growing area west of The Point Casino and Hotel.

“It’s definitely on the horizon,” Placentia said. “Our ultimate goal is to be involved in every aspect of the industry.”

In 2015, Washington’s Legislature approved the creation of compacts for tribes who want to be involved in growing or selling legalized marijuana, provided they support federal law enforcement priorities.

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