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Editor’s Update 10:00PM: In a majority decision, members of the Everett Planning Commission voted to not allow any new retail marijuana stores within the Everett City limits for the next two years. Concerns were expressed over perception that Everett’s allowance of marijuana would hurt the city’s image and stunt economic growth. Commissioners also cited the […]

For more than two years now we’ve written about the ongoing efforts in the city of Everett to comply with I-502 and recreational marijuana. Currently there are four retail marijuana stores within the Everett city limits. A total of five are authorized by the State. Today the newest shop to open, Mari J’s Highway Pot […]

“I first applied in December of 2013,” said Jessica Jordan. “Now that we’re here, I’m pinching myself.” Jordan is the owner of Mari J’s Highway Pot Shop which opened yesterday in the old restaurant space south of the Buzz Inn on 19th Avenue SE in Everett’s Eastmont neighborhood. She is the 4th of five recreational […]

It’s hard to say if anyone was happy after last night’s Everett City Council meeting and vote on permanent recreational marijuana laws. It was a long public hearing with 29 people testifying on what they think of marijuana in Everett. After that hearing, the city council then debated amongst each other and came up with […]

It could be another long meeting for the Everett City Council tonight. Council members will discuss making permanent the interim regulations that have been in place for the past year regarding the growing, processing and retail sales of marijuana under I-502. Of the five retail marijuana stores authorized by the State within the Everett city […]

At the Wednesday mid-day Everett City Council meeting members will get their first look at permanent recreational marijuana laws as proposed by the Everett Planning Commission. Changes to the current interim laws include the city allowing Tier 2 and Tier 3 producers and processors. Under the interim regulations only Tier 1 producers and processors were […]

The Washington State Liquor Control Board issued a press release today announcing results of its first compliance checks of recreational pot stores. One store in Everett, Purple Haze at 4218 Rucker, was listed among four out of twenty-two that failed the compliance check by selling pot to a minor. Another store listed in Everett, Green […]

It looks like the City of Everett may relax some of its interim regulations when it comes to recreational marijuana. On Tuesday evening the Everett Planning Commission is holding a public workshop where it will get a look at proposed amendments to the current regulations. This is not a public hearing but items to be […]

Should Everett open the door to large scale producers and processors of marijuana within the city limits? They’re currently allowed in unincorporated Snohomish County. Should Everett allow marijuana retailers to locate within 2500 feet of one another as taverns are currently allowed? What should the permanent marijuana laws in Everett look like? Tomorrow night, (Tuesday […]

On Christmas Eve, the Washington State Liquor Control Board issued a retail marijuana license to Globodyne whose location is a small building in the shadow of I-5 on Pine street just south of the Holiday Inn Hotel. It’s a neighborhood filled with industrial buildings, the office for an ambulance company, City of Everett support services […]