i-502

Recreational marijuana shops open for business in unincorporated parts of Yakima County will soon be forcibly closed.

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

Now that Washington voters made it clear marijuana should be legal, Yakima prosecutors are deciding what to do with open cases before Initiative-502 goes into effect. Our news partner KIMA Action News asked, "Come December 6th, what do city prosecutors plan to do regarding marijuana cases...

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire says the federal government still hasn't decided whether to take action to block new laws legalizing marijuana in her state and Colorado. Gregoire met Tuesday with Deputy Attorney General James Cole in Washington, D...

The passage of Initiative 502 last week has many Washingtonians scratching their heads. Washington voters decided to decriminalize the posession  of small amounts of marijuana. That leaves more unanswered questions than can be counted about what the future holds...

I-502 to legalizes the possession of marijuana for adults age 21 and older has passed.