Washington State lawmakers are again considering legislation to expand the state’s voter-approved marijuana legalization law by allowing recreational consumers to grow their own cannabis plants.
Under the new bill from Sens. Rebecca Saldaña (D), Noel Frame (D) and T’wina Nobles (D), adults over 21 years of age would be allowed to cultivate up to six marijuana plants at home.
Under SB 6204, no more than 15 cannabis plants could be produced at any one time in a single housing unit, regardless of how many adults live there.
People could lawfully keep the marijuana produced by those plants despite the state’s existing one-ounce limit on possession.
Property owners would be allowed to prohibit tenants from growing cannabis in rental units, and probation and parole officers would be able to bar people from cultivating marijuana as a condition of their supervised release.
Home cultivators would be required to keep plants from public view and grown in such a way that they could not be smelled from public places or private properties of other housing units. Violating those rules would be a class 3 civil infraction.
It would be a class 1 civil infraction for a person to grow more than six but
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