Let’s say you go into a pot shop in Oregon and buy a cannabis clone, a tiny plant like a seedling. Then, if you took that plant into Washington, you could be charged with a felony, cultivation. Some folk claim a state can’t be considered “legal” unless it permits home growing. Reality is that no one ever gets busted for this, but the law is still there. And given that this last session of the legislature didn’t change the law, it will be there for a while.
All cannabis licensees and company owners must be WA residents, and an attempt to change that failed. Having this law greatly helped the locals get a strong foothold in the new market, now the law impedes those that are successful from raising capital for growth or selling their company at a profit. So the law stands, but there has been some court cases that indicate this law might be federally unconstitutional. The feds insist that goods and investments flow freely among the states, but what happens when they regard the industry as illegal?
So very little changed in Washington this year.