Holmes "Aks" Olympia?

Um, guys, try not to do ledes when you're doing dope.

Will this also allow people to buy pot that doesn't come from bloody civil war zones? Because that would be just dandy.

@2 - Maybe, but it depends on the dispensary. I think legal dispensaries are a half-step forward, but they really don't address the problems behind an illegal supply chain.

We've had this model in place in California for some time now, and most of these storefronts are law-abiding (at the local level, at least), responsible businesses. Many are not.

@3 you mean like any other type of business?

No "thank you Pete Holmes" yet? I'll say it: Thank you Pete Holmes.

@4 - Precisely.

Its a step in the right direction - but what are the legal/ethical implications of medical marijuana dispensaries? Where are they getting their pot from? are they inadvertently supporting organized crime by purchasing marijuana. (there is no such thing as "ethically grown" marijuana, unless you/your friends are growing your own).
On the other hand, anything that recognizes that marijuana is not the scary boogeyman gateway drug the right consistently claim it is, is a step in the right direction.

@7 How would buying pot from a dispensary that grows its own be unethical?

@8. my bad. misread a sentence.

@7 - most local dispensaries buy their product from local indoor medical grow operations flying under the radar. This bill would help bring them into the open and face regulations like any other agricultural business.

Obviously we need to get the FDA to sell "tax stamps" to legal MJ farmers and the clinics that use them.

As our Founding Fathers intended.

In Kansas you have to get a tax stamp to sell marijuana. If you are busted with marijuana and don't have a tax stamp you are penalized for breaking the law against posessing and selling marijuana, and also penalized for not having the tax stamp. And the Supreme Court declared that this isn't double jeopardy, either.