Columbia City Holistic Health recently filed an injunction in King County Superior Court in hopes of stopping the city from enforcing its medical marijuana licensing law.

Attorney Douglas Hiatt, who's representing the dispensary, said he asked city officials to stop enforcing the ordinance until the courts rule on their lawsuit, which was filed at the end of September in the wake of the city shutting down several dispensaries. The lawsuit alleges that the city's regulation of medical marijuana businesses is unlawful. But city officials declined Hiatt's request. "Big fuckin' surprise," he said. "They're not going to stop enforcing it while we litigate it, so I'm filing an injunction."

Hiatt also says the city's law is being applied unevenly and that minority businesses have received the brunt of the enforcement. "The places that have actually suffered the raids, those are all minority businesses," he said. "The ones that we have seen take the most egregious hit are all minority-owned or they are serving the minority community."

Earlier this month, Pierce County Superior Court judge Frank Cuthbertson issued an injunction forcing the City of Tacoma to stop its enforcement campaign against medical pot shops until its pending lawsuits are settled. Hiatt said he's hopeful that his clients will get a similar reprieve here in Seattle.

Feds Invade Pot Farm in Search of Occupational Safety Data

The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health paid a visit to a Washington pot farm last week to begin research on the health and safety of workers in the new legal marijuana industry, reports KOMO. Unlike previous visits from federal agencies, this one was welcomed with open arms. "Farmer Tom" (aka Tom Lauerman, the grow's owner) requested the visit via the United Food and Commercial Workers union, hoping to kick-start the process of securing workers' rights in the new industry. He told KOMO that he was "honored to have them here."

The agency's research team collected data on working conditions, including air quality and repetitive stress, which they measured with high-tech wearable sensors. Their results are sure to prove what anyone who has worked as a trimmer already knows: Hand cramps are the devil and long podcasts are a godsend.

New Cannabis Cooking Show Features Jeanne Kohl-Welles

Longtime pot advocate Jeanne Kohl-Welles is putting her mouth where her, um, mouth is. The Washington state senator will be the featured guest on the pilot episode of a new online weed cooking show called, unsurprisingly, Baked. In the first episode, host and local grandma Patsy Benson, who has never smoked weed before but is, like, totally down, makes an infused version of potato scallop casserole with bacon.

After Benson whips up her casserole, Kohl-Welles and fellow rad grandma Florence Childs, an 81-year-old pot shop owner, join her for the fun part: eating it. That's right, you get to watch one of your elected representatives get stoned—another hilarious "first" brought to you by legalization. Thanks, voters! (To find out when and where the pilot episode will air, go to bakedwebseries.com.)

NFL Players Push to Allow Bigger Hits

At the Southwest Cannabis Conference and Expo in Phoenix, Arizona, a group of former NFL players spoke out in favor of using medical marijuana to treat chronic pain, reports ABC-15 Arizona. Kyle Turley, who founded the Gridiron Cannabis Coalition, said weed could "save football" from the epidemic of pain-pill addiction, which is rampant in the NFL.

Turley was joined by Ricky Williams, former Miami Dolphins running back and famous failer of drug tests, who told USA Today that he used to get high and do yoga to cope with the pain of a 10,000-yard rushing career.

Vapor Terrorism Isn't Cool

Thanks to a rash of exploding e-cigarettes on planes, the US Department of Transportation has issued a ban on all battery-powered vape devices in checked luggage. According to Gawker, 26 different morons have left their vape pens turned on in checked luggage, causing "more explosions inside US commercial planes than actual terrorism."

If you absolutely cannot live without your haze of vanilla syrup, you will still be able to take your e-cig with you in your carry-on, provided that it is turned off and not charged during the flight. recommended