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Election 2012
1:35 am
Wed November 7, 2012

Washington Voters Approve Initiative to Legalize Pot

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The recreational use of marijuana will soon be legal for adults in Washington, at least under state law.

Correction:  In the original story Steve Sarich was referred to as an attorney.  He is not an attorney but a medical marijuana consultant and an opponent of I-502.

Hold off on that trip to Amsterdam. It appears recreational marijuana will soon be legal for adults in Washington, at least under state law.

The mood was jubilant at the official I-502 party at the Hotel Andra in downtown Seattle. In attendance was Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes, a primary backer of the measure. He says this law change is about good government.

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Lifestyle
9:14 am
Mon October 1, 2012

Opium University

Ceramic opium pipe bowls
Credit (N3 Photo/Tom Banse)
Ceramic opium pipe bowls; the center one has a toad design.

University of Idaho is unpacking 1000 pieces of rare opium smoking equipment. An eccentric collector beat his addiction. Now he just wants them out of his house. Correspondent Tom Banse has the intriguing back story of how these so-called "instruments of self-destruction" came to a small Northwest town.

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