{"id":21153,"date":"2014-07-08T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/first-marijuana-retail-stores-open-in-state-kent-bans-such-businesses\/"},"modified":"2014-07-08T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T18:57:00","slug":"first-marijuana-retail-stores-open-in-state-kent-bans-such-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/first-marijuana-retail-stores-open-in-state-kent-bans-such-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"First marijuana retail stores open in state; Kent bans such businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Kent residents who want to legally buy recreational marijuana can find the nearest locations in Seattle, Tacoma and Bellevue.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The city of Kent has a ban against recreational marijuana businesses. Voters statewide in 2012 approved Initiative 502 to allow recreational marijuana\u00a0 production, processing and sales.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Kent is the largest city in the state that bans marijuana businesses. Kent is the sixth largest city in the state with a population of more than 120,000.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The first retail store opened Tuesday in Bellingham, followed by one in Seattle.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The <a title=\"store\" href=\"http:\/\/www.liq.wa.gov\/marijuana\/I-502\" target=\"_self\">Washington State Liquor Control Board<\/a> (WSLCB) on Monday issued the state\u2019s first 24 marijuana retailer licenses. The specific opening dates of each location have yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The applicants were notified via email early Monday that they were approved for a retail license. Once approved for a license, producers and\/or processors are able to file a required manifest for transporting to retail locations. Following a 24 hour quarantine period, they may begin transporting products to retail stores. Marijuana retailers may begin selling marijuana at their discretion following receipt of product and entering it in to the traceability system.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Businesses receiving their licenses from the state represent the first of 334 licenses allotted by the WSLCB for retail sales who have successfully completed the licensing process. Locations receiving licenses were selected by taking into account population, geographic dispersion and the individual applicant\u2019s readiness to be licensed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The board also looked at whether cities allow recreational marijuana businesses.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><a title=\"list\" href=\"https:\/\/lcb.app.box.com\/retail-7-7\" target=\"_self\">Here&#8217;s the list of retail outlets<\/a> licensed by the state:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Whidbey Island Cannabis Company, Langley<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Westside 420 Recreational, Longview<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Verde Valley, Union Gap<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Top Shelf Cannabis, Bellingham<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 The Happy Crop Shoppe, East Wenatchee<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Spokane Green Leaf, Spokane<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Space, Tacoma<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Sartori\/Instant Karma, Spokane<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 New Vansterdam, Vancouver<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Margie\u2019s Pot Shot, Bingen<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Main Street Marijuana, Vancouver<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 High Time Station, Ephrata<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Green Theory, Bellevue<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Green Star Cannabis, Spokane<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Freedom Market, Kelso<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Creative Retail Management, Tacoma<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Cascade Kropz, Arlington<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Cannabis City, Seattle<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Bud Hut, Camano Island<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Austin Lott, Winthrop<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Altitude,\u00a0 Prosser<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 4US Retail,\u00a0 Okanogan<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 420 Carpenter,\u00a0 Lacey<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 2020 Solutions, Bellingham<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent residents who want to legally buy recreational marijuana can find the nearest locations in Seattle, Tacoma and Bellevue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-21153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21153"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}