Most people certainly do not grow their own.

Does Eugene (of A Greener Today in Rainier Beach, let's assume) pay taxes on his hash sales? Just as relevant as the % of his business.
"kinda known for around here" != avoiding a DEA letter. A pretty crystalline example of the Both Ways Now crowd and the profit motives in it that could sink the chances for the recreational market.

@19 the problem is that, _ on paper_, this is liberal compared to the previous status quo. But the _actual_ status quo is more liberal. The real status quo is that anyone who wants to can buy all the high quality hash and oil they want in nice stores at nice prices.

it also really invites a black market, not just because of people wanting the product but also because of growers wanting something useful to do with pounds of trim.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/marijuana/2013…

The Seattle PI has a comment from the WSLCB that says they are not really against selling concentrates, it's just not really provided for in the legal language of I-502, and they decided to ban it on the advice of their lawyers. So we should either be kicking ourselves/Allison Holcomb/whoever for not putting some specific language about hash into the bill, or we should acknowledge that this will be a very messy process and it will probably be awhile before we get it the way we like it. But in the meantime, we have legal marijuana and 48 other states don't.

You can't call it medicinal or therapeautic under their rules, yet you have to test and label a bunch of different cannabinoids. What's the point of testing for anything other than THC if not for medical purposes?

The costs to be in this business model will drive out mom & pops.

Oh yeah...and now even investors will have to get criminal backgrounds checks and submit fingerprints and prove their money did not come from criminal activities. It doesn't clarify if money obtained through operating a collective garden counts as criminal activity.

Just curious

Pressed Kief is hash. Water extraction is hash. Neither contain anything harmful...all cannabis. But are they considered concentrates? Or is this all about BHO, etc?

and come to think of it...when an I502 petition was first passed around...a friend refused to sign it...guess why? NO HASH-was the number one reason they gave to not like the initiative.

There was a mixed community on this for a reason...now it has passed and we have to deal with the law that was passed.
I genuinely hope still that everything works out in a way that well, works.
The only way to ensure that it does is to quit arguing over whether we should or should not have voted for it and work together to ensure the LCB at least uses some vasoline.

I think that butane extracted cannabis should be highly regulated if not banned. Legal perhaps only for medical patients, but in the end legal retailers of BHO and or the means to make it IE mass amounts of butane, lab equipment, should require its customers to present a business license, ID, and clean background checks. I believe it should be illegal for these retailers to sell Korean or poorly made gas because of the impurities and lack of regulation at these refineries, leading to the inability to properly purge all contaminants without the use of a secondary organic solvent, or potentially not at all. It is to easy to watch someone make "wax" or BHO the wrong way and then think it is OK to produce "medicine" or recreational smoke that is improperly purged and potentially contains an array of said contaminants from plant matter, petroleum distillate, paraffin wax, grease from machinery used to process gas at the refinery, etc... etc... Or in other words POISON. Unless you are a licensed lab/facility, with access to the correct machinery, clean gas, and are able to legally market your product; you should really think twice before you endanger yours and everyone else's lives around you. A decade ago when BHO started to surface to the public, we were buying "honey oil" pretty much straight from the pan it seemed... from legal medical dispensaries mind you, and it was like a rice krispies commercial, snap crackle pop and often a flaming, boiling bowl of oil! If you do not know what you are smoking, don't buy it. If you do not understand the chemistry and danger behind making Butane Extracts, nor posses the means of making it in a sealed system, and then properly purging it. PLEASE, leave it to professionals. Ice water, dry ice and regular sift, perhaps even alcohol extracts... knock your selves out but please be legal and safe no matter what it is you are doing. Cannabis and such products of and containing it should be made with love and the intention of helping someone feel better or have a good time, not something that can potentially make someone very ill or severely injured.