Seattle pot businesses bristle over mayor’s licensing plan

Mayor Ed Murray’s plan to create a path to state licenses for Seattle’s longstanding medical-marijuana entrepreneurs has hit resistance from some it aims to help.

Alex Cooley was a pioneer in legitimizing the pot industry in Seattle. But after seeing Mayor Ed Murray’s plan for licensing more pot merchants, Cooley wonders why he bothered.

The mayor’s proposal would not allow Cooley, the first medical-marijuana grower to come out of the shadows and gain all appropriate city building permits, to continue farming at his Sodo…

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