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Medical-Marijuana Merchants
Smaller Buffer Zones Would Rule Out Some Current Sites
Alex Cooley was a pioneer in legitimizing the pot industry in Seattle. But after seeing Mayor Ed Murray's plan for licensing more pot merchants, Cooley wonders why he bothered.
The mayor's proposal would not allow Cooley, the first medical marijuana grower to come out of the shadows and gain all appropriate city building permits, to continue farming at his Sodo location because it is too close to a childcare center.
"Why did I work voluntarily with the city to go through the front door," Cooley said at a City Hall meeting last week, "when all of my permits provide no value to me right now?"
Cooley and other unhappy entrepreneurs at the meeting pleaded for changes in the mayor's plan to bring Seattle's long-standing, ruleabiding medical-marijuana merchants into the state's licensed system.
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Smaller Buffer Zones Would Rule Out Some Current Sites
Alex Cooley was a pioneer in legitimizing the pot industry in Seattle. But after seeing Mayor Ed Murray's plan for licensing more pot merchants, Cooley wonders why he bothered.
The mayor's proposal would not allow Cooley, the first medical marijuana grower to come out of the shadows and gain all appropriate city building permits, to continue farming at his Sodo location because it is too close to a childcare center.
"Why did I work voluntarily with the city to go through the front door," Cooley said at a City Hall meeting last week, "when all of my permits provide no value to me right now?"
Cooley and other unhappy entrepreneurs at the meeting pleaded for changes in the mayor's plan to bring Seattle's long-standing, ruleabiding medical-marijuana merchants into the state's licensed system.
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