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Eugene

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Wed May 17, 2017, 07:16 AM May 2017

State of Washington law paves way for organic marijuana market

Source: Reuters

POLITICS | Wed May 17, 2017 | 12:21am EDT

State of Washington law paves way for organic marijuana market

By Bernie Woodall

Washington Governor Jay Inslee on Tuesday signed a bill that paves the way for the state to create what is believed to be the first system in the United States to certify marijuana as organic.

The sponsor of the bill, Republican Senator Ann Rivers, said marijuana certified as organically grown is likely to be on sale in Washington in about a year and a half.

Washington is among a handful of U.S. states where voters approved the sale of recreational marijuana. Washington was the second state to begin legal recreational pot sales, in mid-2014, after its voters in 2012 approved it.

"This is consumer-driven," Rivers told Reuters by phone on Tuesday night. "As we have moved forward in the legal marijuana market, we're hearing people say, 'We don't want any pesticides, fungicides, none of that stuff in our weed.'"

The new law "creates a voluntary program for the certification and regulation of organic marijuana products," to be administered by the Washington agriculture department, according to a state analysis of the new law.

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State of Washington law paves way for organic marijuana market (Original Post) Eugene May 2017 OP
they STILL dont let non medical grow!!!! samnsara May 2017 #1

samnsara

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1. they STILL dont let non medical grow!!!!
Sat May 27, 2017, 07:51 PM
May 2017

..I will fight for organic only after we get the OK for private grows. (because all my stuff is/will be organic)

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