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About halfway through a one-month application window, no one has stepped forward to sell marijuana in Asotin or Garfield counties.
The only southeastern Washington businesses that have applied to be a part of the Evergreen State's new legalized marijuana industry so far are in Whitman County.
They include two retailers in Pullman, THC Station LLC and The Canna Shop. Three enterprises want to be producers in the Tier 3 category, the largest category, which allows cultivation of 10,000 to 30,000 square feet of marijuana. They are Three G Farms in Endicott, Acumen Genetics in Colfax and Squires Forest in Rosalia. Three G Farms and Acumen Genetics would also like to be processors.
Little is known about the businesses. A website with the Acumen Genetics name talks about cannabis and the products it grows.
It's also not clear how long the state will take to process the applications. Liquor licenses take 60 to 90 days, but the state doesn't know how many marijuana license applications will be filed by the time the window closes Dec. 19.
As of Tuesday, more than 1,000 applications had been submitted to the state. A total of 635 were for growers, another 461 were for processors and 230 were for retailers.
Southeastern Washington communities aren't exactly racing to embrace the new form of commerce. Pullman and Clarkston have both imposed moratoriums as they contemplate the rules surrounding the business.
