Washington lawmakers quietly approve bill to re-criminalize some marijuana possession | The Raw Story

Washington lawmakers quietly approve bill to re-criminalize some marijuana possession | The Raw Story:

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The Senate passed the measure unanimously on Saturday, according to The Associated Press. The governor was expected to sign the bill as soon as Monday, but had not yet by early afternoon. Scientists at the Washington State Patrol’s Forensic Laboratory Services warned recently that last November’s election changed the definition of marijuana to such an extent that nearly all plants seized by police could be considered hemp.

The trouble arises where the law draws the line between hemp, an industrial fiber that contains virtually no psychoactive drug, and its more intoxicating cousin marijuana. The state’s law currently says that if tests show more than 0.3 percent of marijuana’s “delta-9 THC,” then its a drug, but anything less is considered hemp and therefore not a drug.

Crime lab experts warned that the language does not account for changes that happen to marijuana when it is burned or cooked, causing a plant that might have a low amount of psychoactive drug in it to become very potent once ingested. 

(I don't even smoke pot but I am enraged over this. God just let people get stoned. For Christ sake. This is so stupid.)