Cannabis Is Now Legal! Can’t Wait For That Headline!
History was made today with the House Judiciary Committing voting 24-10 to approve a bill that in effect ends cannabis prohibition. HB 3884 Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act of 2019 will federally decriminalize cannabis by removing it from the Controlled Substances Act and would require the expungement of past federal cannabis convictions. Of course, […]
Liquor and Cannabis Board Marijuana Home Grow Study
Below is a notice from the WSLCB with 3 options for Washington State Home Grows. They all disappoint us here at Hempfest Central were we’d like to see non registered home grows of a dozen or so plants, giving allowances for clones, and not putting such low limits on seeds. We also feel the felony prosecution of […]
Links To Washington’s Cannabis Bills
We spent an awesome day in Olympia yesterday registering attendees to the ASA Medical Cannabis Lobby Day. Unlike last year, I found legislators eager to hear what I thought of the two major competing medical bills, SB 5052 & SB 5519. Today HB 1698 was introduced which throws a third medical dispensary model in the […]
Don’t Drink the Blame it on Medical Marijuana Kool-Aid.
My name is Sharon Whitson and I’m the General Manager of Seattle Event’s A Non Profit Corporation, the producers of Seattle Hempfest, Hempfest Business, & Hempfest Central. Let’s talk about why I502 is faltering and instead of drinking the blame it on medical marijuana kool-aid we’re going to evaluate some facts. First a history lesson. […]
Preserve Patients Rights
In 2009 when I was diagnosed with Cervical Cancer I was devastated. I could not even form the word cancer to tell my husband let alone my then 5th-grade son. Cancer is the fight of your life. I survived mine and consider myself very lucky; thanks to an angel! I endured eight rounds of a chemotherapy […]
