The City Of Seattle will no longer prosecute marijuana possession offenses. The newly elected city attorney, Peter Homes—who defeated the incumbent Tom Carr in the November 2009 election, says “[The city of Seattle] is no longer going to prosecute marijuana possession cases anymore.” And, on top of that Holmes has already started dismissing cases that were filed by Carr!
Seattle’s been pretty weed-friendly since 2003 when voters approved Initiative 75 that required the Seattle Police and the City’s Attorney’s Office to make the “investigation, arrest and prosecution of marijuana offenses, when the marijuana was intended for adult personal use, the city’s lowest law enforcement priority.” And, it’s only taken seven years or so for the Initiative to be taken seriously, despite a recent (2008) review of the Initiative reported “no evidence of any adverse effects of the implementation of I-75, including specifically: 1. No evident increase in marijuana use among youth and young adults; 2. No evident increase in crime; and 3. No adverse impact on public health.”
The bill is similar to the The Tax & Regulate Cannabis 2010 bill here in California. Under the measure, marijuana would be sold in Washington State’s 160 state-run liquor stores. Customers 21 and older would pay a tax of 15 percent per gram. Legislation started on the 11th and we’ll be continuing to follow the story.
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What about the growers and suppliers, this is good news!?!?! but we have a long way to go.
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