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Posted: 2/5/2013 2:29:21 PM EST
An attendee holds marijuana buds at the International Cannabis & Hemp Expo in Oakland, California September 3, 2011. REUTERS/Mathew Sumner
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Posted: 2/5/2013 2:29:21 PM EST
An attendee holds marijuana buds at the International Cannabis & Hemp Expo in Oakland, California September 3, 2011. REUTERS/Mathew Sumner
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Posted: 2/5/2013 2:23:01 PM EST
An attendee holds marijuana buds at the International Cannabis & Hemp Expo in Oakland, California September 3, 2011. REUTERS/Mathew Sumner
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Posted: 2/5/2013 2:23:01 PM EST
An attendee holds marijuana buds at the International Cannabis & Hemp Expo in Oakland, California September 3, 2011. REUTERS/Mathew Sumner
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Posted: 2/5/2013 12:30:32 PM EST
An attendee holds marijuana buds at the International Cannabis & Hemp Expo in Oakland, California September 3, 2011. REUTERS/Mathew Sumner
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Posted: 2/5/2013 12:30:32 PM EST
An attendee holds marijuana buds at the International Cannabis & Hemp Expo in Oakland, California September 3, 2011. REUTERS/Mathew Sumner
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Posted: 2/5/2013 12:10:55 PM EST
An attendee holds marijuana buds at the International Cannabis & Hemp Expo in Oakland, California September 3, 2011. REUTERS/Mathew Sumner
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Posted: 2/5/2013 12:10:55 PM EST
An attendee holds marijuana buds at the International Cannabis & Hemp Expo in Oakland, California September 3, 2011. REUTERS/Mathew Sumner
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Posted: 2/4/2013 4:28:45 PM EST
FILE - In this June 8, 2011 file photo, Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, speaks during an interview, in Portland, Ore. Blumenauer is one of several lawmakers from both parties who are working to change U.S. marijuana laws, including moves to legalize the industrial production of hemp and establish a federal pot tax. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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Posted: 2/4/2013 4:28:45 PM EST
FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2012 file photo, Jake Dimmock, co-owner of the Northwest Patient Resource Center medical marijuana dispensary, works with flowering plants in a grow room in Seattle. Congressional lawmakers from both parties are working to change U.S. marijuana laws, including altering tax codes to let marijuana dispensaries deduct business expenses on federal taxes, and changing banking laws to make it easier for marijuana-related businesses to get bank accounts. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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Posted: 2/3/2013 9:53:30 AM EST
ADVANCED FOR USE SUNDAY FEB. 3 AND THEREAFTER In this Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012 photo counter drug cocaine “snowflakes” and counter drug marijuana “leaves” that were awarded by the Coast Guard command to the USS Underwood are displayed on the bridge wing for their past counter-narcotic efforts while patrolling in international waters near Panama. In the most expensive initiative in Latin America since the Cold War, the U.S. has militarized the battle against drug traffickers, spending more than $20 billion in the past decade. U.S. Army troops, Air Force pilots and Navy ships outfitted with Coast Guard counternarcotics teams are routinely deployed to chase, track and capture drug smugglers. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
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Posted: 1/30/2013 6:08:43 PM EST
John Farley, a procurement coordinator with the Washington state Liquor Control Board, speaks Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, in Tacoma, Wash., at an information session for people interested in bidding for consultant contracts with the state to advise on the implementation of legal marijuana use, which was passed into law by voters in 2012. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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Posted: 1/30/2013 6:08:43 PM EST
John Farley, a procurement coordinator with the Washington state Liquor Control Board, speaks Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, in Tacoma, Wash., at an information session for people interested in bidding for consultant contracts with the state to advise on the implementation of legal marijuana use, which was passed into law by voters in 2012. Listening at left is David Lampach, president and Co-Founder of Steep Hill Lab, a medical marijuana testing facility in California. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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Posted: 1/30/2013 6:08:43 PM EST
John Farley, a procurement coordinator with the Washington state Liquor Control Board, speaks Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, in Tacoma, Wash., at an information session for people interested in bidding for consultant contracts with the state to advise on the implementation of legal marijuana use, which was passed into law by voters in 2012. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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Posted: 1/30/2013 6:08:43 PM EST
Bill Thomas, of Clarkston, Wash., wears a large hemp necklace Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, in Tacoma, Wash., as he attends an information session put on by Washington's Liquor Control Board for people interested in bidding for consultant contracts with the state to advise on the implementation of legal marijuana use, which was passed into law by voters in 2012. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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Posted: 1/30/2013 6:08:43 PM EST
Khurshid Khoja, left, an attorney with San Francisco based Greenbridge Corporate Counsel, asks a question as he sits with marijuana cultivation expert Ed Rosenthal, right, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, in Tacoma, Wash., as they attend an information session put on by Washington's Liquor Control Board for people interested in bidding for consultant contracts with the state to advise on the implementation of legal marijuana use, which was passed into law by voters in 2012. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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Posted: 1/29/2013 4:48:21 AM EST
This Jan. 26, 2013 photo shows a a bar code attached to a marijuana plant at a grow house in Denver. The bar codes are assigned to each plant and follow it through the growing and distribution process. Washington state is considering the use of a similar tracking system. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
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Posted: 1/29/2013 4:48:21 AM EST
This Jan. 26, 2013 photo shows a a bar code attached to a marijuana plant at a grow house in Denver. The bar codes are assigned to each plant and follow it through the growing and distribution process. Washington state is considering the use of a similar tracking system. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
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Posted: 1/29/2013 4:48:21 AM EST
This Jan. 26, 2013 photo shows bar codes attached containers of processed marijuana at a grow house in Denver. The bar codes are assigned to each plant and follow it through the growing and distribution process. Washington state is considering the use of a similar tracking system. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
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Posted: 1/29/2013 4:48:21 AM EST
In this Jan. 26, 2013 photo a worker at a grow house in Denver examines a marijuana plant ready to be harvested. Last fall, voters made Washington and Colorado the first states to pass laws legalizing the recreational use of marijuana and setting up systems of state-licensed growers, processors and retail stores where adults over 21 can walk in and buy up to an ounce of heavily taxed cannabis. Both states are working to develop rules for the emerging recreational pot industry, with sales set to begin later this year.(AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
