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SAMMAMISH  (AP) — Five employees at a western Washington state pizza restaurant police say were selling drugs in the parking lot have been arrested. The King County Sheriff's Office tells the Seattle Times that the arrests on Friday followed a months-long investigation called "Operation Extra Olives...

BISMACK, N.D. (AP) — Sheriff's deputies in North Dakota have arrested a Tacoma, Washington, man with 13 pounds of marijuana in the back of his car. The News Tribune reports the man was speeding early Wednesday morning when a deputy pulled the man over, and then smelled marijuana...

SEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle police officer has been charged with helping smuggle hundreds of pounds of marijuana to Baltimore. Alex Chapackdee, a 44-year-old patrol officer who's been with the department since 2000, was arrested Saturday. According to a federal criminal complaint unsealed Monday, he is one of four men charged with conspiring to distribute marijuana...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Marijuana stores will be able to give customers free lockable storage boxes under a bill signed by Gov. Jay Inslee. Supporters of the measure, signed Thursday, say it helps protect kids and pets from accidentally eating marijuana products...

DENVER (AP) — Some revelers on San Francisco's Hippie Hill are complaining that the 4/20 marijuana celebration was less free-spirited than in the past. Security checked IDs and turned away people who didn't have them, leading to angry exchanges...

DENVER (AP) — A new national poll says Americans think it's safer to use marijuana than opioids to relieve pain. The Yahoo/Marist poll out Monday says two-thirds of the respondents in the telephone survey said opioid drugs such as Vicodin or OxyContin are "riskier" to use than pot, even when the pain pills are prescribed by a doctor...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state lawmakers are considering joining three other states to allow students to use marijuana in school for medical purposes. House Bill 1060 would permit a parent or guardian to privately administer medical marijuana to a child while at school, on a school bus or at a school-sponsored event...

SEATTLE (AP) — Police say officers seized 814 pot plants from a Seattle residence after responding to a burglary call there. Seattle police said officers responded to a caller in southeast Seattle early Tuesday who said two men crawled through a ground floor window of a home...

SALEM  (AP) — Oregon lawmakers worried about a nationwide crackdown on legalized marijuana under the Trump administration are rushing to protect the personal information of pot customers. A bipartisan group of lawmakers is taking one of the first direct state actions in response to White House spokesman Sean Spicer suggesting a boost in enforcement of federal anti-marijuana laws...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown says the federal government should leave the state's legal marijuana industry alone. Brown says that if the Trump administration makes a move against legalized recreational marijuana, it would be going against its own goals such as improving the economy, creating jobs and giving states more say in policies...