Lots of concern around the industry, but the expansion is still happening. Recent CBS poll shows 70% support for medical marijuana. If the discussion can ever get to the national stage, things will change. Too much science and common sense behind it now.
That said, alot of these first public companies in the sector are getting suffocated.
I wouldn't say wa has been hit hard, it was 15 shops and they were all being run while selling to people without cards. Big write up in Seattletimes.com today about making it legal and the fight with federal gov