{"id":557995,"date":"2021-06-09T11:07:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T15:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=557995"},"modified":"2021-06-09T11:07:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T15:07:22","slug":"poke-and-toke-washington-state-allows-free-marijuana-with-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poke-and-toke-washington-state-allows-free-marijuana-with-covid-19-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Poke And Toke\u2019: Washington State Allows Free Marijuana With COVID-19 Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoke-and-toke-washington-state-allows-free-marijuana-with-covid-19-vaccine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=557995&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/joint-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"e12o35pe0 css-1wr5klf\" readability=\"42.720692854933\">\n<p>Washington state officials call a new state program \u201cJoints for Jabs,\u201d but a few wags have come up with another name: Poke and toke.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s Liquor and Cannabis Board (LCB) this week approved a <a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/accounts\/WALCB\/bulletins\/2e303d6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\">program<\/a> to allow state-licensed marijuana retailers to \u201cprovide one joint to adult consumers who receive COVID-19\u00a0vaccination at an in-store vaccination clinic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">State officials last week announced Washington has reached its goal of at least vaccinating 70% of adult residents, which Democratic Governor Jay Inslee says will allow the removal of most remaining COVID-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>But the program comes with a lot of rules.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Participating cannabis retailers may only provide a pre-roll joint, and no other product may be provided as part of this allowance.<\/li>\n<li>Any cannabis joint provided to a customer must be associated with an active vaccine clinic event at the retail location.<\/li>\n<li>Only\u00a0<u>one<\/u>\u00a0complimentary joint may be provided to a customer who receives a first or second COVID-19 vaccine dose\u00a0<u>at the event.<\/u><\/li>\n<li>Receipt of the complimentary joint must occur during the same visit as receiving the vaccination, and may not be delayed, postponed, or otherwise acquired at a later date or time.<\/li>\n<li>Retailers may only provide the complementary joint to persons 21 years of age and older.<\/li>\n<li>Any vaccine clinic held inside a licensed retail location must comply with all age restriction requirements for the cannabis retailer.<\/li>\n<li>The cannabis joint must be provided by a retailer, and not a producer or processor.<\/li>\n<li>The retailer must purchase the product at wholesale from a licensed producer or processor.<\/li>\n<li>The retailer may provide the cannabis joint without having to conduct a retail sale of the product. As no sale occurs, the provided product will not be subject to sales and excise tax for the retail licensee.<\/li>\n<li>Licensees are required to maintain records of all product provided as part of this allowance.<\/li>\n<li>Advertising of vaccine clinics and one complementary joint for those receiving a first or second COVID-19 vaccine will be allowable during the afforded time period, so long as licensees maintain compliance with all other advertising regulations.<\/li>\n<li>This allowance does not supersede any state or local health rules and regulations, and licensees must ensure compliance with local heath jurisdiction rules and regulations associated with such clinics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Washington isn\u2019t the first state to turn to free weed to encourage residents to get vaccinated. Earlier this month, the Mint Cannabis Dispensary in Arizona joined up with a medical group to offer free, on-site vaccinations at its three Phoenix-area locations. In exchange, adults received a free joint and an edible cannabis gummy, an initiative the dispensary dubbed \u201cSnax for Vaxx,\u201d USA Today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/local\/arizona-health\/2021\/06\/02\/free-marijuana-dispensary-coronavirus-vaccine\/7492574002\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other states have gotten creative. Last month, Republican Ohio Governor Mike DeWine put up $5 million in a lottery drawing to persuade residents to get the vaccine. In the lottery, five vaccinated adults will win $1 million, with the money coming from federal coronavirus relief funds.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington state officials call a new state program \u201cJoints for Jabs,\u201d but a few wags have come up with another name: Poke and toke.The state\u2019s Liquor and Cannabis Board (LCB) &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279736,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/joint-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Poke And Toke\u2019: Washington State Allows Free Marijuana With COVID-19 Vaccine","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/joint-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Poke And Toke\u2019: Washington State Allows Free Marijuana With COVID-19 Vaccine","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}