Washington State bans Marijuana use in establishments with a liquor license.

[maxsolomon]

"The state Liquor Control Board on Wednesday adopted a rule change that makes it illegal for any liquor-licensed establishment to allow marijuana consumption of any kind on its premises.

The rule change likely goes into effect 30 days from Wednesday's unanimous board vote, said Mikhail Carpenter, a spokesman for the Liquor Control Board. That means, starting on or about Jan. 17, marijuana smokers can no longer light up on the second floor of Frankie's Sports Bar on Pacific Avenue in Olympia.

Frankie's has been allowing bar patrons to smoke marijuana in an upstairs private room for about a year. Frankie's owner, Frank Schnarr, has argued that members could smoke legally there after the passage of I-502, which made it legal for adults 21 and older to possess up to an ounce of marijuana in Washington state."

Read more here: http://www.theolympian.com/2013/12/18/2892020/liquor-control-board-bans-pot.html#storylink=cpy

Is it or isn't it legal? This is a "private club", similar to a Hookah Bar or Cigar Club, the only places in WA State that allow smoking indoors. But the WSLCB (which now regulates Marijuana) has made it's open use illegal nearly everywhere. Parks? Nope. On the street? Nope. In your own privately owned residence? Yes. And because it remains illegal Federally, you cannot use it in a National Forest or National Park (which are, obviously, the best places to use it).

[TeamPooka]

1. Can't have them competing. Booze will lose. Big time. nt

[maxsolomon]

2. well, this is an upstairs room at a sports bar.

So it's COMBINING, not competing. Two great tastes that go together.

[jberryhill]

3. "Is it or isn't it legal?"

Lots of things are legal, and regulated.

Is driving legal? Yes or no? Well, yes, if you satisfy the various requirements for keeping and maintaining a license.

State regulations of things that can or can't go on in establishments licensed to serve liquor are pretty wide ranging, varied, and sometimes just weird. In some places, for example, you can't have a pool table in a place that serves liquor. Why? Hellifino, but there you are.

[maxsolomon]

4. You're making me think of The Music Man.

Well, either you're closing your eyes
To a situation you do not wish to acknowledge
Or you are not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated
By the presence of a pool table in your community.
Well, ya got trouble, my friend, right here,
I say, trouble right here in River City.
Why sure I'm a billiard player,
Certainly mighty proud I say
I'm always mighty proud to say it.
I consider that the hours I spend
With a cue in my hand are golden.
Help you cultivate horse sense
And a cool head and a keen eye.
Did ya ever take and try to give
An iron-clad leave to yourself
From a three-rail billiard shot?
But just as I say,
It takes judgement, brains, and maturity to score
In a baulk line game,
I say that any boob kin take
And shove a ball in a pocket.
And they call that sloth.
The first big step on the road
To the depths of deg-ra-Day--
I say, first, medicinal wine from a teaspoon,
Then beer from a bottle.
An' the next thing ya know,
Your son is playin' for money
In a pinch-back suit.
And list'nin to some big out-a-town Jasper
Hearin' him tell about horse-race gamblin'.
Not a wholesome trottin' race, no!
But a race where they set down right on the horse!
Like to see some stuck-up jockey'boy
Sittin' on Dan Patch? Make your blood boil?
Well, I should say.
Friends, let me tell you what I mean.
You got one, two, three, four, five, six pockets in a table.
Pockets that mark the diff'rence
Between a gentlemen and a bum,
With a capital "B,"
And that rhymes with "P" and that stands for pool!
And all week long your River City
Youth'll be frittern away,
I say your young men'll be frittern!
Frittern away their noontime, suppertime, choretime too!
Get the ball in the pocket,
Never mind gittin' Dandelions pulled
Or the screen door patched or the beefsteak pounded.
Never mind pumpin' any water
'Til your parents are caught with the Cistern empty
On a Saturday night and that's trouble,
Oh, yes we got lots and lots a' trouble.
I'm thinkin' of the kids in the knickerbockers,
Shirt-tail young ones, peekin' in the pool
Hall window after school, ya got trouble, folks!
Right here in River City.
Trouble with a capital "T"
And that rhymes with "P" and that stands for pool!

[TeamPooka]

5. And here's a clip of Robert Preston singing the song....

And that rhymes with "P" and that stands for POT!

[malthaussen]

7. I thought Pool Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge... n/t

[jberryhill]

16. Oddly enough...

I played that part in high school.

But, yeah, there are counties in Louisiana where you can't drink and play dominoes.

[Warren Stupidity]

6. My experiences combining marijuana with alcohol frequently ended up praying to the white goddess. nt

[seveneyes]

8. More Nanny nonsense

Next, they'll be banning Ecigs and Big Gulps.

[hobbit709]

9. And if you consume an edible before walking in, how would they know?

[TeamPooka]

10. you'd be the guy sleeping. nt

[hobbit709]

11. Not necessarily.

[Mariana]

22. Why would they care?

You've complied with this particular law if you consumed it before you entered the premises.

[Bennyboy]

12. Wow, what about music venues like THE GORGE?

20K every night, stoners and drinkers. This is going to affect the live music scene hugely....

[maxsolomon]

13. Welp, the issue will be enforcement, just like it was when MJ was illegal

As in, no one enforced the ban on MJ use at the Gorge. It would be like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

[B Calm]

14. Regardless, Washington is still light years ahead of Indiana!

[maxsolomon]

15. So so true.

I have kin in SE Indiana, AKA North Kentucky.

To me, the objectionable part is in allowing the legalization to proceed, but piling on so many regulations that legal use becomes nigh impossible.

For instance, where is a renter who lives in a smoke-free apartment building allowed to use MJ legally in WA State? At a Hookah Club?

[SoCalDem]

17. Washington state is endorsing house-parties & liquor stores

People do not HAVE to go "out" to socialize.

[liberal_at_heart]

18. The liquor control board is going to completely screw this up, and drive people to the black market.

[Chan790]

19. I'm reminded of a kosher deli in NYC I used to frequent.

It's not kosher to put cheese on a meat sandwich so they had two shops, right next to one another. One was a deli and the other was a dairy. So you'd go to the deli, buy a sandwich then you'd go next door and buy an 1/8# of cheese. Take it outside and put your cheese on your sandwich.

I'd open businesses next door to each other. One is a bar and the other is a private club that allows smoking and has a BYOB policy. I'd then put a door between the two businesses. Then you can drink your outside beverage and smoke up to your heart's content.

Alternately, you don't need a liquor license for a self-serve honor-bar in a private club. I know this because I'm a member of a private social club with an honor bar.

[maxsolomon]

23. I think that's essentially what this bar owner did

except it's separated vertically.

the WSLCB is an antiquated joke.

[Douglas Carpenter]

20. that was basically the policy in the Netherlands - although it may changed - I don't know

But from what I remember - Marijuana and hashish would be available and smoked in certain cafes that did not ever serve alcohol and vice versa. I think it may have been more an unofficial policy than an written law.

[cleanhippie]

21. You also will not be able to consume alcohol where cannabis is sold.