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Observations
The Week Ahead
(November 28, 2022)
WSLCB, JLARC, and the Attorney General would convene on cannabis related topics as Washington State legislators met with guests and officials to prepare for the 2023 session.
WA Senate LCTA - Committee Meeting
(October 17, 2022) - Work Session - Organized Retail Crime
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- Washington State Senate Labor, Commerce, and Tribal Affairs Committee (WA Senate LCTA)
Ahead of the 2023 session, committee members heard about the response to organized retail crime, including staff of the attorney general’s office and cannabis retail representatives.
WSLCB - Executive Management Team
(September 14, 2022) - Summary
WSLCB leaders reviewed progress on the cannabis reporting system, agency request legislation, and enforcement data showing increased pesticide complaints and fewer AVN hearings.
WSLCB - Board Caucus
(July 19, 2022) - Social Equity Programs
An expert briefing on social equity programs was a “depressing" preview of challenges any effort to distinguish applicants by race-based criteria would likely face before a “hostile” federal judiciary.
WSLCB - Board Caucus
(July 12, 2022) - Summary
A new timeline for social equity rules was hypothesized by staff who looked ahead to a plant canopy rule project while responding to an “unprecedented” influx of rulemaking petitions.
WSLCB - Deliberative Dialogue - Cannabis Impairment
(June 21, 2022) - Summary
Panelists with experience in drug prevention and behavioral science couldn’t reach consensus on the question of what makes cannabinoids impairing during a final dialogue on the topic.
WSLCB - Executive Management Team
(May 11, 2022) - Cannabis Retail Safety and Enforcement
A comprehensive Enforcement and Education briefing delved into that division’s work in 2022 before staff updated on federal banking legislation and media engagements at the agency.
WSLCB - Listen and Learn Forum - Social Equity
(March 23, 2022) - Summary
Staff gathered input on draft conceptual rules for the agency social equity program which included many criticisms of the proposal - and heard opposition to the underlying equity project.
WA SECTF - Public Meeting
(January 24, 2022) - Summary
New task force members were welcomed, followed by a review of recommendations already made and those still needed, then a vote to continue one work group and start up three others.
WSLCB - Board Caucus
(November 30, 2021) - Summary
The board considered the future of advisory councils, how to proceed with social equity task force recommendations, and a recent cannabis law book edited in part by an agency AAG.