WASHINGTON: Washington State’s legal marijuana business community will convene this weekend in Seattle for a two-day trade show featuring more than 30 of the state’s top cannabis brands.
MJBA Vendor Fair Seattle, is being produced by the Marijuana Business Association, a national industry trade group based in Seattle, whose mission is the creation of a legitimate, sustainable and profitable legal marijuana industry, and sponsored by Evergreen Herbal, a popular maker of cannabis-infused edibles and beverages. 
“This weekend we will mark the historic launch of the legal marijuana market in Washington,” said MJBA CEO David Rheins.“Washington State has finally begun issuing business licenses for participants in the new recreational marijuana industry. With I-502 retail stores expected to open by June, MJBA Vendor Fair Seattle is an opportunity for the state’s leading cannabis companies to gather together under one roof – to showcase their wares, demonstrate their products and make the key industry contacts that they’ll need before launch. This event will serve as a one stop shop for legal cannabis businesses — literally everyone and everything you need to know to start and grow your legal cannabis business all in one place.”
The vendors and sponsors list for MJBA Vendor Fair Seattle — all members of the Marijuana Business Association — reads like a Who’s Who of Washington’s marijuana community: Evergreen Herbal, MagicalButter.com, Eden Labs, Forever Green Illumination, Green Staffing Solutions, BioTrackTHC, Green Thumb Logistics, The Law Offices of Kurt E. Boehl, The Vape Co., Nana’s Secret, TrimPal, Braach CPA, CannaSecurity America, Cannabis Now Magazine, iAlternative Media, SITKA, Botanical Solutions, Kush Creams, Ettalews, NORML, Mary Jane Marketing, Dawn Darrington, Washington Bud Company, Hemp Ace, SCAR and Cannabis Basics.
MJBA Vendor Fair Seattle takes place this Saturday, March 15th, and Sunday, March 16th, at the MagicalButter.com studios in Seattle’s SODO neighborhood is for industry participants only . Tickets are $20 Advance/ $25 Day of Show.
[…] Marijuana advocates have come to lobby Washington before, often to argue for more lenient treatment under federal law. But on Thursday, buoyed by a flurry of state decisions that have expanded the legal use of marijuana, the cannabis crowd came less as social activists than as entrepreneurs, asking Congress to remove some of the obstacles that stand in the way of their fledgling businesses. […]