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SEATTLE (AP) — Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson says the state is ready to fight if necessary to keep its legal marijuana. Ferguson made the comments Thursday after White House spokesman Sean Spicer suggested during a press briefing that President Donald Trump's administration might crack down on states that have legalized marijuana for recreational use...

You look around Seattle and at some of the people from the Silicon Valley, see the lifestyle of all those Dot-Com millionaires and you say to yourself, “If only.” If only I hadn’t been born too soon, or too late, or in a place where computer technology wasn’t accepted or appreciated. If only you had a chance to cash in on a big-money trend you too could be one of  “them”! You can't turn back the c

BREMERTON (AP) — Police say a man high on methamphetamine and marijuana drove onto a sidewalk and hit a woman and man at a Bremerton bus stop. KOMO-TV reports the 31-year-old Bremerton woman died at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration isn't going to reclassify marijuana and remove it from the list of the most dangerous drugs. The Drug Enforcement Administration says in a lengthy notice in the Federal Registry that it consulted with the Health and Human Services Department and concluded that marijuana will remain in the class of drugs that have "no accepted medical use in the Unite

It took a couple of hours.  More than a couple of dozen people spoke. Both sides of the question of whether to lift Yakima’s ban on marijuana grow, package and retail operations presented their arguments. In the end, the fact that nearly six in 10 voters said no to marijuana meant nothing to four members of the Yakima City Council, who said they know better than the people who elected them, and th

SEATTLE (AP) — One of a dozen state-certified marijuana testing labs is closed amid a dispute over testing results. The Seattle Times reports Testing Technologies owner and CEO Larry Ward said in a letter to customers that operations have been suspended due to science director Justin Newman's flawed and inaccurate testing for microbial matter. ...

Farmers cannot afford to spend more on crop insurance. Michael Swanson, the chief agricultural economist at Wells Fargo, told the Crop Insurance and Reinsurance Bureau recently that if federal crop insurance premiums decrease, farmers will reduce their coverage levels...

The Yakima City Council will wait until May to deal with the issue of lifting the city's pot sales ban. But the council also decided against sending the question to the Planning Commission for recommendations on zoning. Without the Planning Commission's recommendation, City Council members could approve pot businesses that wouldn't face land use restrictions other than what are outlined in Washing

DENVER (AP) — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought federal approval for a credit union aimed at serving marijuana businesses in Colorado, saying allowing it "would facilitate criminal activity." Colorado's Fourth Corner Credit Union challenged a decision by the U.S. F...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An investigation by The Associated Press finds that at least one-third of the Power Five conference schools are not punishing athletes as harshly as they were 10 years ago for using marijuana and other so-called recreational drugs...