The WSLCB Board and Policy and Rules team heard strong criticisms of the supplemental Quality Control Testing and Product Requirements rule proposal from many stakeholders.
During discussion following her presentation, WSLCB Policy and Rules Manager Kathy Hoffman revealed she was authoring an interpretive statement regarding Delta-8-Tetrahydrocannabinol (Delta-8-THC) which, if implemented, may distill out unanticipated consequences.
In addition to advocacy training, participants learned about future WSLCB rulemaking on advertising, a draft Delta-8-THC policy change, and the Cannabis Regulators Association.
Policy and Rules staff prepared the Board for Wednesday’s formal rulemaking, but members had little to say.
Wednesday’s public hearing for the WSLCB’s protracted Quality Control Testing rulemaking project could help shape a new regime of pesticides and heavy metals testing of adult use cannabis products in Washington state.
Task force members received a data briefing to assist in elaboration of qualifying criteria for cannabis social equity applicants residing in “disproportionately impacted areas.”
Ron Jackson, a University of Washington professor, led a wide-ranging webinar for prevention professionals on the plant cannabis, its uses, effects, and modes of action.
During their weekly meeting, the three elected Chelan County Commissioners met with the Director of Community Development to discuss code enforcement actions and confirmed that the County Fire Marshal had not performed a required annual inspection of marijuana processor extraction equipment in over a year.
Board Member Russ Hauge expressed his concern about coverage of the WSLCB’s BIPOC engagements and the Social Equity in Cannabis Task Force which he felt assumed “the LCB engaged in discriminatory if not racist practices during the initial round of licensing.”
The SBOH board members reviewed their four legislative priorities for the 2021 session, including a prohibition on “the sale of flavored nicotine and vapor products,” and approved their 2021 meeting schedule under an assumption that the on-going pandemic would necessitate virtual meetings through the next calendar year.