Washington House Approves Allowing Tribes to Participate in Cannabis Industry
By Associated Press
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) – The 
Washington state House of Representatives passed by a wide margin a bill to allow the state’s Native American tribes to formally participate in the state’s legalized marijuana business.
The bill passed the House Thursday with bipartisan support in an 80-18 vote Thursday afternoon. It authorizes the governor’s office to negotiate compacts with tribal groups that want to coordinate their marijuana businesses with the state’s rules.
The bill’s lead sponsor, Rep. Christopher Hurst, D-Enumclaw, said the bill was needed after the federal government last year took the position that tribes in states with legal marijuana are free to set their own policies about the drug.
The bill moves next to the Senate for consideration.
David M
How can a State allow a sovereign nation to do anything that nation cannot already do by itself with no need of state approval ? The Tribes living around Puget Sound and Seattle metro will be selling marijuana to recreational consumer’s and medical patient’s very soon it appears. As soon as their first crops are in. The Washington legislature forced a bill through the Statehouse allowing the Governor to negotiate with the tribes not the other way around.