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🌱🏛🔍 The Week Ahead (November 24, 2025)

Behavioral health service providers would convene during the holiday week, but the @lcb.wa.gov Board would not after a caucus in which members questioned some of the “board efficiencies.”

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#WashingtonState #Cannabis
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🌱🏛🔍 The Week Ahead (November 17, 2025)

Public health research predominated, including an innovative tribal partnership, I-502 retail geography, an @lcb.wa.gov roundtable, and quantification of maternal cannabis use.

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#WAleg #Cannabis
November 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🌱🏛🔍 The Week Ahead (November 10, 2025)

The @lcb.wa.gov Board Caucus was cancelled after receiving an update on the Public Health Roundtable the week prior, and the EMT would convene to provide division-level updates.

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#WAleg #Cannabis
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🌱🏛🔍 The Week Ahead (November 3, 2025)

Kratom was on the agenda for the @lcb.wa.gov Research Roundtable and the Board may deny a petition from an equity licensee before focus groups on cannabis retail financial agreements.

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#WAleg #Cannabis
November 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🌱🏛🔍 The Week Ahead (October 27, 2025)

No cannabis policymaking events were scheduled for the week, but research discussions started the week before would be carried forward into November.

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#Cannabis
October 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🌱🏛🔍 The Week Ahead (October 20, 2025)

A presentation of State-sponsored research mandated by I-502 promised epidemiological findings of harms correlated with retail cannabis access by Washington’s Medicaid population.

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#WAleg #Cannabis
October 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
🌱🏛🔍 The Week Ahead (October 13, 2025)

Cannabis research and data gathering efforts were on the agenda for events hosted by Washington State University and the Washington Traffic Safety Commission.

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#WAleg #Cannabis
October 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🌱🏛🔍 The Week Ahead (October 6, 2025)

The @lcb.wa.gov Board planned to increase the forms of acceptable identification at retail and hear a summary by a board member of an open council meeting all board members attended.

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#WAleg #Cannabis
October 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🌱🏛🔍 The Week Ahead (September 29, 2025)

While no public facing actions were planned for the week, @lcb.wa.gov staff had been busy the week before delivering an official summary of a closed meeting and opening a rulemaking project.

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#WAleg #Cannabis
September 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🌱🏛🔍 The Week Ahead (September 22, 2025)

Lynnwood City Council may potentially amend and vote on an ordinance to open cannabis retail before @lcb.wa.gov board members took time to summarize advisory council proceedings.

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#WAleg #Cannabis
September 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🌱🏛🔍 The Week Ahead (September 15, 2025)

@lcb.wa.gov staff had been busy preparing budget decision packages on SMP and traceability for the Office of the Governor, whereas the board cancelled their only public meeting for the week.

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#WAleg #Cannabis
September 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🌱🏛🔍 The Week Ahead (September 8, 2025)

State-sponsored cannabis-related research figured prominently in the weeks ahead as the City of Lynnwood prepared a public hearing on lifting a decade-long retail ban.

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#WAleg #Cannabis
September 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🌱🏛🔍 The Week Ahead (September 1, 2025)

@lcb.wa.gov staff labored on rulemaking including a petition for online age verification as Lynnwood City Council Members prepared to review a draft ordinance to allow retail #cannabis businesses.

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September 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🌱🏛🔍 The Week Ahead (August 25, 2025)

The @lcb.wa.gov Board would focus on “Hemp-Derived THC Products” before hosting the reformed Alcohol Advisory Council following a refresh of the cannabis council the week prior.

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#Cannabis #Hemp
August 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🌱🏛🔍 The Week Ahead (August 18, 2025)

After efficiently packing in considerable activity the week prior, the @lcb.wa.gov Board prepared to reanimate the Cannabis Advisory Council to engage with industry trade associations.

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#WAleg #Cannabis
August 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🌱🏛🔍 The Week Ahead (August 11, 2025)

Several rulemaking actions and briefings were lined up @lcb.wa.gov while the Department of Labor and Industries [ @lniwa.bsky.social ] prepared a safety program workshop for cannabis businesses.

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#WAleg #Cannabis
August 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🌱🏛🔍 The Week Ahead (August 4, 2025)

The @lcb.wa.gov Board Caucus was cancelled and a second obscured Research Roundtable was scheduled for Wednesday, its subject matter and participants unknown to the public for now.

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#Cannabis
August 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🌱🏛🔍 The Week Ahead (July 28, 2025)

@lcb.wa.gov staff would provide transparency into a roundtable with cannabis stakeholders—but not prevention advocates?—while the board limited transparency into some written public comments.

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#WAleg #Cannabis
July 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🌱🏛🔍 The Week Ahead (July 21, 2025)

There were no public cannabis policymaking events planned for the week, reflecting the annual patterns of the summer doldrums in addition to fewer opportunities for voluntary transparency.

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#WAleg #Cannabis
July 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🌱🏛🔍 The Week Ahead (July 14, 2025)

Lynnwood was moving ahead with a cannabis retail ordinance, @lcb.wa.gov would hear about young adult health, and JLARC members were set to adopt a report on the cannabis market.

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#WAleg #Cannabis
July 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🌱🏛🔍 The Week Ahead (July 7, 2025)

Following its public dialogue with a prevention-oriented State legislator, Lynnwood City Council Members arranged to hear from prospective retail owners and cannabis advocates.

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#WAleg #Cannabis
July 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🌱🏛🔍 The Week Ahead (June 30, 2025)

The DOH Medical Cannabis Registry was launched, the social equity registration window would be closed, and the @lcb.wa.gov Board was doing nothing - which appeared to be the Chair’s goal.

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#WAleg #Cannabis
June 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🏛 Lynnwood City Council
🌱 Work Session
📅 June 16, 2025
🔍 Preventionist Cannabis Retail

As members contemplated ending a decade-old restriction on #cannabis retail businesses, a prevention-oriented State legislator offered suggestions for a “home run” implementation.

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#WAleg
June 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🏛 WSLCB
🌱 Public Health Roundtable
📅 June 11, 2025
🔍 Summary

At the first Public Health Roundtable, concerns over separate and unequal WSLCB-hosted dialogues for cannabis and prevention interests were top-of-mind along with hospitality policies.

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#WashingtonState #Cannabis
June 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🌱🏛🔍 The Week Ahead (June 23, 2025)

Public health and prevention stakeholders may attend a closed webinar regarding a new budtender training regime devised by youth cannabis prevention officials in the DOH.

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#WAleg #Cannabis
June 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM