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Center for Legal Cannabis is a public policy think tank and project incubator advocating legal cannabis and less crime.
We support emerging cannabis industries with research, business consulting, advocacy support, technology development, and spirit. We fertilize and strengthen the ground underneath advocates and entrepreneurs.
Our work is just begun. We appreciate your interest.
Cannabis zoning maps
Jan. 4, 2013: Everett medical cannabis zoning map released.
Dec. 19, 2012: Seattle proposed cannabis zoning map released.
Dec. 13, 2012: I-502 prohibited licensing zone map for King County released. The map currently includes 5 of 8 layers listed in Initiative 502 Section 6(8).
Nov. 8, 2012: Federal school zone map for King County publicly released. The map currently contains 5 of 6 layers.
Working media may email us or call Ben Livingston at 206-335-9214. As of December 19, 2012 our work has been covered by KIRO 7 News, the Seattle Weekly, and mentioned briefly in the New York Times. Few media outlets have covered our work or shown these very compelling maps.
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Apr 05 | Legal Cannabis Week #18
Liquor board targets private pot clubs
Legislative weed watch
Week in review
Mar 30 | Legal Cannabis Week #17
Blair Butterworth, 1938-2013
This week's writing
Legislative weed watch
Week in review
Mar 23 | Legal Cannabis Week #16
State picks pot adviser
Me(dia) requests
Legislative weed watch
Week in review
Mar 15 | Legal Cannabis Week #15
Rulemaking update
Out-of-staters wanted for Stranger article
Legislative weed watch
Week in review
Mar 07 | Legal Cannabis Week #14
Last rulemaking forum tonight
Let cops use pot, petition asks
Legislative weed watch
Week in review
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Mar 01 | Legal Cannabis Week #13
State rulemaking update
A.G. Holder mumbles on pot
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Legislative weed watch
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Recent news
Jun 18 | Washington lawmakers want answer from feds on pot
Members of the Washington state congressional delegation are asking that the federal government take a hands-off approach to enforcement of marijuana laws in Washington.
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Jun 18 | Everything wrong about medical marijuana marketing in California, in a single snapshot
I snapped this photo of a popular medical marijuana dispensary storefront in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles last week. To me, it represents everything bone-headed about the way LA area pot shops (which operate in a legal gray zone in a conflicting patchwork of federal, state, and local laws) market themselves.
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Jun 18 | UPDATE: Collective marijuana gardens still hazy in Woodland
The Woodland City Council is split on whether to end a temporary moratorium on collective marijuana gardens and allow them to bud within specifically zoned areas of the city.
Jun 18 | Casual marijuana use becomes common on TV
Only minutes into this season’s “Mad Men” premiere, Megan Draper giddily pulled out two joints she’d hidden in her bikini, and she and Don proceeded to get high, setting the tone for the season. Reality shows about the cannabis market abound, from “Weed Country” and “Pot Cops” to pot-related material in scripted series such as “The Office,” “Parenthood,” “The Big C,” “Homeland,” and “Hot in Cleveland.”
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Jun 18 | Jamen Shively's Diego Pellicer Marijuana Retail Plan Under Fire From Industry Peers
NEW YORK -- A marijuana industry executive's plans to become the retail face of legalized cannabis appear to be going up in smoke.
Jun 17 | Marijuana Advocate Rolling His Way To The White House
TAYLOR (WWJ) – A local man says he is “rolling to the White House.”
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Jun 17 | Businessman tries his luck at building pot brand
SEATTLE (AP) — For the activists who led the effort to legalize recreational marijuana in Washington state last fall, Jamen Shively was one of their biggest fears: an aspiring pot profiteer whose unabashed dreams of building a cannabis empire might attract unwanted attention from the federal government or a backlash that could slow the marijuana reform movement across the country.
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Jun 17 | Setting up a marijuana market in Washington from scratch
Following voter initiatives last year, Washington and Colorado are writing up regulations to license recreational-marijuana producers and retailers and to tax sales, which are still illegal under federal law.
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