Washington State bans Marijuana use in establishments with a liquor license. [View all]

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"The state Liquor Control Board on Wednesday adopted a rule change that makes it illegal for any liquor-licensed establishment to allow marijuana consumption of any kind on its premises.

The rule change likely goes into effect 30 days from Wednesday's unanimous board vote, said Mikhail Carpenter, a spokesman for the Liquor Control Board. That means, starting on or about Jan. 17, marijuana smokers can no longer light up on the second floor of Frankie's Sports Bar on Pacific Avenue in Olympia.

Frankie's has been allowing bar patrons to smoke marijuana in an upstairs private room for about a year. Frankie's owner, Frank Schnarr, has argued that members could smoke legally there after the passage of I-502, which made it legal for adults 21 and older to possess up to an ounce of marijuana in Washington state."

Read more here: http://www.theolympian.com/2013/12/18/2892020/liquor-control-board-bans-pot.html#storylink=cpy

Is it or isn't it legal? This is a "private club", similar to a Hookah Bar or Cigar Club, the only places in WA State that allow smoking indoors. But the WSLCB (which now regulates Marijuana) has made it's open use illegal nearly everywhere. Parks? Nope. On the street? Nope. In your own privately owned residence? Yes. And because it remains illegal Federally, you cannot use it in a National Forest or National Park (which are, obviously, the best places to use it).