Washington State Office of the Chief Information Officer
(WA OCIO)

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Washington State Office of the Chief Information Officer (WA OCIO)
Legislative, licensing, communications, and director updates contributed to the discussion amongst WSLCB leadership about activity towards social equity in cannabis.
Board members prepared to take several actions at the following week’s board meeting and learned they would soon be asked to rescind their interim policy on traceability workarounds.
WSLCB cancelled most of its public meetings while the State Board of Health prepared to extend its vitamin E acetate prohibition and convene the Marijuana Social Equity Task Force.
Resistance to the State’s approach to mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic was rising with the summer temperatures while public meeting cancellations were becoming routine.
Washington state’s short legislative session begins today while the regulatory cadence at the WSLCB and Ecology continues apace.
WSLCB's Chief Information Officer went over the “API Key Reset” security incident with integrators, though new information was limited.