Policymakers in Washington State are poised to consider letting its residents cultivate marijuana at their homes.<\/p>\n
According to Marijuana Moment<\/a>,\u00a0the bill<\/a>\u00a0was pre-filed last week by Shelley Kloba, who represents Democrats and Republican rep Drew MacEwen. It\u00a0would allow adults 21 and older to grow up to six cannabis plants per person.<\/p>\n In addition, a single household would be allowed to grow up to 15 plants while keeping the produced product.<\/p>\n Other requirements include labeling the homegrown marijuana, including the grower\u2019s name, address, and date of birth, as well as the dates of the planting and harvest.<\/p>\n The current bill resembles the\u00a0legislation<\/a>\u00a0proposed last year, which hasn\u2019t made it to a \u201cfull floor vote,\u201d Marijuana Moment writes.<\/p>\n In fact, the lawmakers in the Evergreen State have been struggling for years now to pass the measure, as their homegrown efforts are repeatedly shut down.<\/p>\n \u201cAs one of the first states to legalize cannabis, I understand that some tradeoffs were made to garner support for the initiative,\u201d Kloba told Marijuana Moment. \u201cNow that the industry has matured, and the public has experienced legalized cannabis in practice rather [than] just, in theory, it seems as though prohibiting homegrow is an antiquated policy.\u201d [Read more at Benzinga<\/a>]<\/p>\n The post Washington Poised To Legalize Homegrown Marijuana Via New Bill<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Business Executive – Cannabis and Marijuana industry news<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Policymakers in Washington State are poised to consider letting its residents cultivate marijuana at their homes. According to Marijuana Moment,\u00a0the bill\u00a0was pre-filed last week by Shelley Kloba, who represents Democrats and Republican rep Drew MacEwen. It\u00a0would allow adults 21 and older to grow up to six cannabis plants per person. In addition, a single household […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}