Imagine this: The next time you buy pot, you get to shake hands with the person who grew it. You can ask the actual farmer if they used pesticides, or which strain is especially good right now, or which one is best for sleeping and which is best for fucking.
If you live in Seattle or anywhere in Washington, this is of course completely illegal. Our state’s weed laws put a big fat wall between customers and farmers, barring producers from opening stores or directly selling their goods in farmers markets. That disconnects customers from the people who grow their weed and puts small businesses at a serious disadvantage.
It also makes our weed laws uniquely hostile toward farmers. In places like Oregon, Colorado, and California, pot growers are allowed ways to integrate their farms into retail businesses.
Now Washington’s farmers are asking for those same rights.
