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Red Tails be relevant to
those 50 percent of young
black men who drop out of
high school yearly?
Cg: I hope so. If some
youngsters are inspired to
go back and complete their
education based on the
achievements of these war-
riors, that would be God’s
gift.
kw: Patricia Turnier also
says: One of my favorite
roles you played in your
career is Dr.
Ben
Carson. What did it mean to
you to represent this great
physician who became the
first
African-American
medical doctor in history to
more happy than fearful.
kw: When you look in
the mirror, what do you see?
Cg: Accomplishment.
I’m 44. I made it. [Laughs]
kw: The Ling-Ju Yen
question: What is your earli-
est childhood memory?
Cg: Watching it snow in
‘It’s my passion to play
characters that show how
great it is to be not just African-
American, but American’
receive the Presidential
Medal of Freedom?
Cg: [Shouts] You see! I
forgot about that one while
we were just focusing on
military men. It’s my pas-
sion to play all these types
of characters that help edu-
cate how great it is to be not
just African-American, but
American.
kw: What is your
favorite dish to cook?
Cg:
Top
Ramen.
[Laughs]
kw: The Columbus Short
question: Are you happy?
Cg: Yes, sir. Every day.
kw: The Sanaa Lathan
question: What excites you?
Cg: Adrenaline.
kw: The Tasha Smith
question: Are you ever
afraid?
Cg: Yes, from time to
time, but God has blessed
me with the ability to be
kw: Thanks again for the
time, Cuba, and best of luck
with both Red Tails and
Double Victory.
the Bronx.
kw: If you could have
one wish instantly granted,
what would that be for?
Cg: Longevity.
jurisdiction,’’ Kohl-Welles
said.
The bill sets off what is
likely to be a big year for
marijuana-policy debates.
Lawmakers are expected to
send to voters in November
an initiative that would
legalize and tax recreation-
al-marijuana sales.
Whether lawmakers have
the stomach — or the time
— to legalize dispensaries is
unclear in a session already
crowded with a budget
deficit of roughly $1.5 bil-
lion and a gay-marriage pro-
posal.
Police oppose dispen-
saries, and federal authori-
ties recently raided some
shops.
Cody, who has invested
about $20,000 in Herban
Legends, said he is patient,
if nervous. ``We’re still in
this limbo,’’ he said. ``As
time goes on, more people
will come on board. Things
take a while, and they
should.’’
After Gregoire’s partial
veto of a 2001 bill that
would have set up statewide
regulation of dispensaries,
storefront shops gravitated
to perceived safe havens,
particularly Seattle.
Sections of the bill that
survived the veto authorized
45-plant patient gardens.
Those provisions were not
intended to create storefront
dispensaries, but shops
nonetheless reorganized as
networks of gardens.
Cities have made their
own rules, many enacting
moratoriums.
Issaquah
requires a background
check to obtain a regulatory
license, and Shoreline this
month mandated buffer
zones between dispensaries,
which are also called ``col-
lectives.’’
The legal uncertainty has-
n’t ended bigger dreams.
Bellevue real-estate bro-
ker Tom Gordon, who has
helped 10 dispensaries find
storefronts, said good com-
mercial parcels can attract
inquiries from 40 to 60 peo-
ple looking to open dispen-
saries.
Some
are
Californians or Coloradans
who ``tell you it’s like the
Wild West out here, with
less competition and a good
taxing structure,’’ Gordon
said.
``I think we’re only at 20-
30 percent of capacity,’’
Gordon said, ``but you can’t
find the sites,’’ in part
because few landlords are
willing to lease to dispen-
saries.
Storefront dispensaries
began popping up at least 10
years after Washington vot-
ers in 1998 authorized med-
ical marijuana for qualified
patients. In November, fed-
eral authorities raided 10
shops, including several in
Seattle, accused some of
using state law to hide
money laundering and, in
one case, a backdoor sale of
5 pounds of pot going to the
Midwest.
Philip Dawdy of the
Washington
Alternative
Medicine Alliance, a med-
ical-marijuana group, esti-
mates about 135 dispen-
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saries are open now, half in
Seattle. He said the new
proposal in Olympia is
needed to end ``a patchwork
of regulations.’’
``Our goal is to have rea-
sonably clear state law that
is unambiguous and won’t
lead to the feds making
threats,’’ Dawdy said.
The state Department of
Revenue (DOR), which last
year warned dispensers they
must tax their sales, said 15
marijuana-related business-
es paid a total of $243,600
Although dispensaries say
they intend to help those
who
need
marijuana,
patients are likely to oppose
the legislation Wednesday.
The new bill would guar-
antee arrest protection if
patients join a voluntary
registry, an idea that is
anathema to some. Those
not signed up would have
lesser protection — an
``affirmative defense,’’ if
criminally charged.
``I don’t understand why I
need to register. It seems
The new bill would guarantee
arrest protection if patients join
a voluntary registry, an idea
that is anathema to some
in state and local taxes in
the first nine months of
2011, including $52,600 in
local sales taxes.
That’s nearly tenfold as
much as the marijuana
industry paid in 2010, ``but
it is unlikely it represents all
the taxable sales taking
place,’’ DOR spokesman
Mike Gowrylow said.
like a lot of headache,
paperwork and bureaucra-
cy,’’ said Ric Smith, a
patient advocate who is on
kidney dialysis.
The registry is intended to
mute
law-enforcement
opposition to dispensaries.
Police groups favor reg-
istries, and Kohl-Welles
said a registry was part of a
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