Crane operator, they always want a reason to blame the operator. It’s part of having certifications. Which is why most drink heavily daily. As long as you get 8 hrs of sleep most people are ok the next morning.

So peaceful and dreamy.

The LCB is doing everything they can to strangle the industry. Expect that number to go down next year as black market sales begin to make a big return.

Fellow Black Dude who has lived in King County for the past five years here.

Full disclosure --- I love WA State but I hate Seattle/King County.

Besides the population density, traffic, homeless crisis and progressively worse laws passing every year by inept quasi-do-gooder legislators --- they literally just passed a law decreasing penalties for drug dealers, gang-related violence and mass shooters RIGHT BEFORE an Assault Weapons Ban that the majority of the state does not want --- House Bills 1268 and 1240, respectively --- what I hate most about this area or WA is the daily racism I experience.

Yes, here in the ostensibly progressive-Liberal metropolis of Seattle I experience racism DAILY.

As many other commenters have stated, its a subtle racism --- but that doesn't make it any less insidious or soulcrushing.

People will cross to the other side of the street to avoid walking past me.

Folks will lock their doors as I walk past their vehicles.

Women will clutch their bags or shift their belongs to their opposite hands when I get on elevators with them.

I've been accused of trying to follow a white woman into a restroom at a gym because I had sweat in my eye and took more than a split second to read the signs of the two restrooms to determine which was 'Male'.

I could go on but I imagine you get my point.

Now here is the kicker --- If I go to more rural or at least less urbanized areas of WA --- Lynden, Kingston, Enumclaw, Chehalis, Monroe, etc. --- Folks there treat me just like another person.

After five years I have to have one conclusively racist encounter in any part of WA outside the Greater Seattle Metro area.

The only potential reason for this I can conclude is that population density has a positive correlation with paranoid and tribalistic behavior.

So my unwarranted advice --- Get out of King County as often as possible to remind yourself that real community and HUMANITY still exist beyond its purgatorial expanses.

Beer and wine are not included if that’s what you think is throwing it off, they are taxed differently/ independently.

Pays for their healthcare and the police ironically

Money isn’t from the cannabis industry tho. It’s tech money that bought cannabis

The only legal state where it is still a felony to grow your own plants....State sponsored monopoly that forces us to buy stale, dry, overpriced garbage.

It pays for healthcare. Large reason why Washington state has “universal healthcare”

Yea cannabis is paying more per taxable unit. Our rate is 37% plus local sales tax average of like $.086 or close total state tax of 45+%. The alcohol tax is 29% + sales tax for a total of 37%. Cannabis taxes at the state level are 8+% more than alcohol also cannabis is taxed at federal maximum of I believe 37% of gross income minus cost of goods sold. Cannabis taxes are above 82% of the total retail gross cost in Washington state.

Pay your registration and car tabs fees, pay taxes…. Federal funding helps with repairs and roadwork too…

The one regret I have from my youth is not joining Job Corps. I would have started my preferred profession 20 years earlier.

Someone already commented this but here ya go…

https://www.tre.wa.gov/portfolio-item/washington-state-marijuana-revenues-and-health/

Lol there’s a dispensary company owner who has a massive yacht (the brand name is huge letters and logo on the stern) on Lake WA near one of the marinas in a multi million dollar mansion right on the water so I’ll skip the sympathy for them…

Nice, Now let's be transparent as to WHERE ALL THAT MONEY IS! It's Not in our infrastructure or our public schools.

Can we use some of that money to home some of the homeless people?

Yesss!!

Wow the board got fuuuuuucked.

Yeah, it was otherworldly walking through all of that. The skiing area was covered with it to the point where it was visible from a miles and miles away.

This was last July when spring came very late! Hopefully it comes on time this year.

I can understand requirements not to show up to work drunk or high, but in your free time? If you're dictating my sobriety outside of the office, I'm still on the clock as far as I'm concerned.

Roll on, Columbia....

This was the sole reason state workers didn’t have to have furlough days beyond august of 2020 or something like that. The budget deficit was made up with alcohol and marijuana sales. I wish it could have done something for the housing crisis and inflation too.

That has nothing to do with anything. Purchase tax and property tax have nothing in common.

Just be glad we don’t have state income tax.

And my pipe!