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Excise taxes in Washington state on weed are 37%, much higher than the ~20% you suggest for CA. https://lcb.wa.gov/mj2015/faqs-on-taxes https://dor.wa.gov/find-taxes-rates/taxes-du…

Hi folks, I'm one of the founders of https://www.topshelfdata.com , the site that provided most of the data used in the article. Let me know if you have any questions related to th…

The idea that the Federal government may crack down is certainly unsettling. Even without the detailed traceability public records data being available, the cat is already out of t…

Thanks for the questions. My apologies for the slow response, HN is throttling my comments. Here we go: 1. I'm no lawyer, but we did confirm with the state public records office th…

Traceability exists in all states where it is legal, so other states do collect this level of data. However, Washington is the only state with an incredibly transparent public reco…

Yes, that is correct. What we have is a subset of what the state makes available as a public record. The state has this data, and much more already.

We debated this one quite a bit, and ultimately went with a free tier instead of free trial because: (a) it gives us public free content that can be used for SEO, and (b) reduces t…

Hi folks, I'm one of the founders. Happy to answer any questions. A few tidbits: * The data comes from WA public records. Can you believe that every single plant, harvest, and reta…