But it also means well never be able to grow our medicine where were living now. John Novak said: I-502 is in trouble! With the opinion, Pierce County Council Chairman Dan Roach said the county will be able to prohibit those businesses and “not expend taxpayer dollars to defend it.” “It’s a win for taxpayers and a win for my community,” said Roach, R-Bonney Lake. He said the county now may not take the state to federal court to keep marijuana businesses out of unincorporated areas, as he had threatened Tuesday. But state Rep. Chris Hurst, D-Enumclaw, who has argued the initiative pre-empts local action, said if the ruling holds up it would threaten the state’s whole experiment with recreational marijuana. “Without pre-emption, 502 will be a failure,” Hurst said. “You certainly can’t have a major county simply relying on the current criminal network to supply marijuana and have the county next door to it having licensed stores.”
Posted on: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:11:26 +0000
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