Washington cannabis rules for visitors

Adults 21 and older, residents and visitors alike, may possess up to 1 ounce of useable cannabis (dried flower), 16 ounces of cannabis-infused product in solid form, 72 ounces of infused product in liquid form and 7 grams of cannabis concentrate; for drinks packaged in units of no more than 4 milligrams of THC, the liquid limit is 200 milligrams of THC instead (RCW 69.50.4013, 69.50.360). The same amounts cap a single store transaction, and LCB rules bar any sale that helps a buyer end up with more than the possession amount (WAC 314-55-095). Holding more than 1 ounce of flower but no more than 40 grams is a misdemeanor, and more than 40 grams is a gross misdemeanor (RCW 69.50.4014, 69.50.4013).

Stores accept an unexpired photo ID: a license or ID card from any U.S. state or Canadian province, a passport (the rule does not limit it to U.S. passports), a passport card, NEXUS or Global Entry card; visitors buy under the same limits as residents (WAC 314-55-150, RCW 69.50.360). Use is legal only out of public view, and property owners set their own rules: opening or consuming cannabis in public, including city and state parks, hotel lobbies and ferries, is a class 3 civil infraction, and lounges and cannabis clubs are illegal (RCW 69.50.445, 69.50.465). In a car it must be sealed or in the trunk (RCW 46.61.745), and LCB rules prohibit delivery. Sea-Tac flights, Mount Rainier and other federal land, and trips to Canada, Oregon or Idaho fall under federal law or other governments' laws, where adult-use marijuana is not protected.

The regulator is the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board. Check any shop's license on the state license lookup before you buy.

Any adult 21 or older may possess up to 1 ounce of useable cannabis, meaning dried flower, 16 ounces of cannabis-infused product in solid form, 72 ounces of infused product in liquid form and 7 grams of cannabis concentrate (RCW 69.50.4013, 69.50.360, 69.50.101). The statute lets a store sell 'any combination' of those amounts on its premises to any person 21 or older, and the same figures set the legal possession limit. Washington draws no line between residents and visitors, so a tourist from out of state or abroad gets the same limit as a Seattle resident.

Drinks follow a 2024 change. The 72-ounce liquid cap does not apply to products packaged in individual units of no more than 4 milligrams of THC; for those, the limit is 200 milligrams of THC in total (RCW 69.50.360, as amended by chapter 9, Laws of 2024, effective June 6, 2024). LCB rules add product caps: a single serving of an edible or drink may hold no more than 10 milligrams of delta-9 THC, a package no more than 100 milligrams, and a single unit of concentrate no more than 1 gram (WAC 314-55-095).

The limits work per transaction and per person. LCB rules cap a single transaction at the same amounts, plus 10 units of a product taken into the body other ways, and bar a store or employee from conducting a sale that helps anyone obtain more than the personal possession amount (WAC 314-55-095). Buying a second ounce at another store while you still hold the first puts you over the line. The Department of Health's patient page still lists only the four original categories, without the 2024 drink rule; the statute controls.

Adults may share, within narrower limits. A person 21 or older may give another adult, for free and not tied to any sale, up to half an ounce of useable cannabis, 8 ounces of solid infused product, 36 ounces of liquid infused product or 100 milligrams of THC in low-dose units, or 3.5 grams of concentrate in a 24-hour period, either in a nonpublic place out of public view or in the original store packaging (RCW 69.50.4013). Holding more than 1 ounce of flower but no more than 40 grams is a misdemeanor (RCW 69.50.4014).

You must be 21. Licensed retailers may not employ or admit anyone under 21, except that card-holding medical patients aged 18 to 20 may enter and buy at a medically endorsed store, and card-holding patients under 18 may enter one with their designated provider but may not buy (RCW 69.50.357). Possession by anyone under 21 is barred regardless of THC concentration unless the person is a qualifying patient with a valid authorization (RCW 69.50.4013), and retailers must train every employee to identify people under 21 (RCW 69.50.357).

The LCB's rule lists the documents a store may accept to verify age: a driver's license, instruction permit or identification card from any U.S. state, a U.S. territory, the District of Columbia or a Canadian province; a U.S. armed forces ID card; a passport, passport card, Global Entry card, permanent resident card or NEXUS card; a Merchant Marine card issued by the U.S. Coast Guard; and qualifying tribal enrollment cards (WAC 314-55-150, as amended effective November 8, 2025). An expired document is not acceptable for verifying age.

That list answers the foreign visitor question. The rule says 'passport' without limiting it to U.S. passports, so a valid foreign passport qualifies, and Canadians may also use a provincial driver's license or a NEXUS card (WAC 314-55-150). A driver's license from a country other than the United States or Canada is not on the list, so a visitor from Europe, Asia or Mexico needs the passport itself. No one under 21 may enter or remain in a store (RCW 69.50.357).

Tribal enrollment cards count only when the tribe is located in Washington and the card has security features comparable to a Washington driver's license (WAC 314-55-150). The LCB keeps a page of tribal card designs it accepts, including enhanced cards from the Makah Indian Tribe and the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and cards from the Tulalip Tribes, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the Yakama Nation. Stores may not use the ID rule to treat customers differently based on any protected class under the state's antidiscrimination law (WAC 314-55-150).

Out of public view on private property. State law makes it unlawful to open a package of cannabis, or to consume it, in view of the general public or in a public place, and a violation is a class 3 civil infraction (RCW 69.50.445), with a maximum penalty of $50, not including statutory assessments (RCW 7.80.120). A private home with the owner's permission is the reliable option. A front porch, balcony or yard in plain view of the street can still be in view of the general public.

The cannabis statute borrows the liquor code's definition of a public place: streets and alleys, state and county roads, school grounds, public buildings, the lobbies, halls and dining rooms of hotels, restaurants, theaters and stores, public conveyances and their depots and waiting rooms, and publicly owned beaches, parks and playgrounds (RCW 66.04.010). For alcohol, parks run by the state parks commission are excluded (RCW 66.04.011), but the cannabis statute says that exclusion does not apply (RCW 69.50.445), so state parks are public places too.

Washington State Parks says that cannabis use is not permitted in public spaces, and it bans smoking inside its vacation houses, yurts, cabins and other rustic structures. Smoke rules add another layer: the Smoking in Public Places law bars smoking in bars, restaurants, stores, lobbies, casinos, transit and other places open to the public, and within 25 feet of their entrances, exits, opening windows and air intakes (RCW 70.160.020, 70.160.030, 70.160.075). Smoking there can bring a civil fine of up to $100 (RCW 70.160.070).

Several other places are ruled out by statute. Stores may not let anyone open or consume cannabis on the premises (RCW 69.50.357), cannabis clubs are a felony (RCW 69.50.465), and consuming cannabis in a vehicle on a public highway is a traffic infraction (RCW 46.61.745). Federal land, including Mount Rainier, Olympic and North Cascades national parks and the national forests around them, follows federal law, where adult-use marijuana remains a Schedule I controlled substance (DEA final rule, April 28, 2026).

Only where the hotel allows it, and smoking is usually ruled out. The public place definition used for cannabis covers the lobbies, halls and dining rooms of hotels but does not list guest rooms (RCW 66.04.010, 69.50.445), so a closed room is not automatically a public place. Hotels set their own cannabis rules and can forbid it in rooms entirely.

Smoking runs into a second law. Washington's Smoking in Public Places law treats no less than 75 percent of the sleeping rooms a hotel or motel rents to guests as public places where no one may smoke (RCW 70.160.020, 70.160.030), and an intentional violation carries a civil fine of up to $100 (RCW 70.160.070). The law defines smoking as carrying or smoking a lighted pipe, cigar, cigarette or other lighted smoking equipment, so it targets combustion; vapes and edibles fall outside that law but not outside a hotel's own rules.

Common areas are public. Using cannabis in a lobby, hallway, hotel restaurant or bar, or on a balcony or pool deck in view of other guests, is a class 3 civil infraction with a maximum penalty of $50 plus assessments (RCW 69.50.445, 7.80.120). Hotel entrances also sit inside the 25-foot no-smoking buffer around doors, opening windows and air intakes of smoke-free buildings (RCW 70.160.075), so stepping outside the lobby door for a joint does not solve the problem.

Vacation rentals are private property, so the owner's rules and the listing terms apply, and a deck or hot tub in view of neighbors is still in view of the general public (RCW 69.50.445). Delivery to a room is not an option: LCB rules prohibit internet sales and delivery of product to customers (WAC 314-55-079), and the agency says a website offering shipping or home delivery is likely not a legal site. Licensed stores may take an online order for pickup, paid at the store (LCB).

No. Washington has no legal cannabis lounges, clubs or consumption cafes. It is a class C felony to conduct or maintain a cannabis club, defined as a club, association or business, for profit or not, that keeps premises where members or other people may keep or consume cannabis, or to run a public place where consumption is permitted, including any place that charges admission (RCW 69.50.465). A class C felony carries up to five years in prison, a $10,000 fine or both (RCW 9A.20.021).

Stores cannot fill the gap. No licensed retailer or employee may open or consume cannabis, or allow it to be opened or consumed, on the outlet premises except for disposal, and the LCB must fine a licensee $1,000 for each violation (RCW 69.50.357). Stores with a medical endorsement must prohibit medical use by anyone at the outlet at all times, patients included (WAC 314-55-080), and a retail license allows the sale of cannabis products, paraphernalia and lockable storage boxes only (WAC 314-55-079).

As of October 16, 2026, the club ban has not been amended since 2022, when the Legislature replaced the word 'marijuana' with 'cannabis' across the code (RCW 69.50.465; chapter 16, Laws of 2022). Bars and taverns are smoke-free public places as well (RCW 70.160.020). An event or venue advertising on-site cannabis use, whether ticketed or billed as members only, is the kind of operation the statute makes a felony, and the legal alternative is a private residence where the owner agrees.

It must be sealed or in the trunk, and no one may open or use it in the car. On a highway, which means any publicly maintained way open to vehicles (RCW 46.04.197), it is a traffic infraction for the owner, the driver or any passenger to keep cannabis anywhere but the trunk, an area not normally occupied or reachable by people in the vehicle, or a package that is unopened with its seal intact; a glove or utility compartment counts as within reach (RCW 46.61.745). Consuming cannabis in any manner in a vehicle on a public highway is also a traffic infraction.

A traffic infraction penalty may not exceed $250 per offense unless another statute allows more, before mandatory fees and an additional $24 penalty (RCW 46.63.110). The open-package rule names passengers and the consumption rule covers anyone in the vehicle, so rideshare, taxi and rental car riders cannot light up in the back seat, and public conveyances of all kinds are public places where consuming is a separate civil infraction (RCW 66.04.010, 69.50.445). Putting cannabis in a container labeled as something else and then breaking the open-package rule is an infraction too (RCW 46.61.745).

Washington sets a per se THC limit. A driver commits DUI with a THC concentration of 5.00 or higher within two hours of driving, measured as nanograms of delta-9 THC per milliliter of whole blood and not counting the metabolite carboxy-THC, or while under the influence of or affected by cannabis at any level (RCW 46.61.502, 46.04.586). The statute says that being entitled to use a drug under state law is no defense, and the per se THC limit applies regardless of whether the cannabis was bought legally (RCW 46.61.502). A driver under 21 commits a misdemeanor with any THC concentration above 0.00 (RCW 46.61.503).

DUI is a gross misdemeanor. With no prior offense in seven years, and no test refusal, the sentence is at least 24 consecutive hours and up to 364 days in jail, with electronic home monitoring or 24/7 sobriety monitoring as alternatives, and a fine of $350 to $5,000; a refusal raises the minimums to 48 hours and $500, and the court must require an ignition interlock device (RCW 46.61.5055). The LCB notes that the method of use affects how soon effects are felt and how long they last.

Not legally. The Port of Seattle runs SEA as a non-smoking facility: its rules ban smoking throughout the airport, including the garage, drives, terminal, concourses and airfield, except in designated outdoor smoking areas, and the ban covers electronic cigarettes (SEA Rules and Regulations No. 5). Public buildings and the waiting rooms of public conveyances are public places under state law, so consuming there is a civil infraction (RCW 66.04.010, 69.50.445). We found no SEA page on cannabis rules or disposal.

The flight is a federal matter. TSA's medical marijuana page, updated April 27, 2026, now lists carry-on and checked bags as 'Yes (Special Instructions)', but says its officers will refer any illegal substance found at screening to law enforcement, and adult-use marijuana remains illegal under federal law (21 U.S.C. 844). The FAA says cultivation, storage or distribution of marijuana is prohibited on federally obligated airport property regardless of state law. Federal simple possession carries up to a year in prison and a minimum $1,000 fine (21 U.S.C. 844).

Canada is a hard stop in both directions. CBP says crossing the border or arriving at a U.S. port of entry with marijuana may result in seizure, fines or arrest and may affect admissibility, and Canada's border agency says it is illegal to take cannabis across the Canadian border whether it is used medically or recreationally. That covers the Peace Arch and Pacific Highway crossings at Blaine and the Point Roberts port (CBP). The state ferry route to Sidney, British Columbia is out of service until at least spring 2030 (WSDOT).

Washington's Liquor and Cannabis Board says it is illegal to take cannabis out of the state, even to a place where cannabis is legal, and neighboring states offer no safe passage. Asked whether Oregon cannabis can be taken to Washington, Oregon's regulator answers no and calls taking marijuana across state lines a federal offense (OLCC). Idaho criminalizes any amount: possessing 3 ounces or less is a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine, plus a mandatory minimum fine of $300 for anyone 18 or older, and more than 3 ounces is a felony carrying up to five years and a $10,000 fine (Idaho Code 37-2732).

Not on federal land. Mount Rainier National Park says possession or use of any amount of marijuana is prohibited in the park, its facilities, concessions and campgrounds and in the surrounding national forest lands, punishable by a fine of up to $5,000 for an individual, up to six months in prison, or both (16 U.S.C. 551, 18 U.S.C. 3559 and 3571). North Cascades National Park Service Complex posts the same statement for the park and for Ross Lake and Lake Chelan national recreation areas.

Olympic National Park's compendium addresses only alcohol under 36 CFR 2.35 and says nothing about marijuana, but federal simple possession carries up to a year in prison and a minimum $1,000 fine anywhere (21 U.S.C. 844). The 2026 rescheduling does not change this for visitors: the DEA rule effective April 28, 2026 moved only FDA-approved drug products and marijuana under a state medical license to Schedule III, and any other form of marijuana, adult-use purchases included, remains in Schedule I.

Many ski days happen on national forest land. The Forest Service lists Crystal Mountain Ski Resort, Stevens Pass Ski Resort and Mt. Baker Ski Area as operating under permit with the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, and On national forest land, Forest Service rules prohibit possessing any controlled substance in violation of federal law (36 CFR 261.10(p)), and marijuana other than FDA-approved or state medical products remains in Schedule I. Terrain at those resorts that lies within the national forest is federal land where state legalization offers no cover (36 CFR 261.10(p), 21 U.S.C. 844).

Tribal land follows tribal law and the tribe's agreement with the state. The governor may enter into cannabis agreements with federally recognized tribes in Washington and may delegate their negotiation to the LCB, and each agreement must set a tribal cannabis tax of at least 100 percent of the state cannabis excise tax and state and local sales and use taxes; the Legislature found that federal Indian law keeps the state from enforcing its civil regulatory laws in Indian country (RCW 43.06.490). The LCB reports 23 completed compacts, and the Puyallup Tribe lists Commencement Bay Cannabis among its tribal entities.

No. LCB rules state that internet sales and delivery of product to customers is prohibited (WAC 314-55-079), and the statute authorizes retail sales on the premises of the retail outlet (RCW 69.50.360). The LCB tells consumers that legal stores may not ship products or deliver them, and that a website offering shipping or home delivery is likely not a legal site. That holds for hotels, homes, vacation rentals and offices alike, and for medical patients as well as adult-use customers.

Online ordering for pickup is allowed. The LCB says stores may accept online pick-up orders, but the order must be paid for at the store when you collect it, and the purchase still counts against the 1 ounce, 16 ounce, 72 ounce and 7 gram limits (RCW 69.50.360). Stores may sell between 8 a.m. and 12 a.m. (WAC 314-55-147), and no one under 21 may enter or remain on the premises unless they are an 18 to 20 year old patient with a recognition card at an endorsed store (RCW 69.50.357).

The only legal handoff outside a store is a gift between adults. A person 21 or older may give another adult up to half an ounce of useable cannabis or the other gift amounts in a 24-hour period, but only for free, not tied to any sale, and either in a nonpublic place out of public view or in the original packaging (RCW 69.50.4013). A paid 'gift' service is a sale, and delivering cannabis outside the licensed system can be charged as delivery of a controlled substance, a class C felony (RCW 69.50.401, 9A.20.021).

Not as an adult-use consumer. Washington's adult-use law protects possessing and buying finished products, and home plants are allowed only for authorized medical patients and their designated providers (RCW 69.51A.210, 69.50.4013). Under the state's Uniform Controlled Substances Act, production includes planting, cultivating, growing or harvesting, and manufacturing cannabis without authorization is a class C felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine (RCW 69.50.101, 69.50.401, 9A.20.021).

Patients have tiered plant counts. A qualifying patient or designated provider with an authorization but not entered into the state database may grow 4 plants and keep 6 ounces of useable cannabis at home; one entered into the database with a recognition card may grow 6 plants and keep 8 ounces from them; and with a health care professional's recommendation, up to 15 plants and 16 ounces (RCW 69.51A.210). Plants must be grown in the patient's or provider's domicile.

Limits also apply per home. No more than 15 plants may be grown or located in any one housing unit, even if several patients live there, unless it is a registered cooperative, and no growing or processing may be readily seen or smelled from a public place or another housing unit (RCW 69.51A.260). Cooperatives may have up to four patient members, must register with the LCB, may not sit within one mile of a cannabis retailer and may grow no more than 60 plants (Department of Health).

Visitors cannot qualify. A qualifying patient must be a Washington resident at the time of diagnosis (RCW 69.51A.010), so an out-of-state medical card does not authorize growing here. Cities, towns and counties may also adopt civil penalties and abatement procedures for growing beyond or outside these rules (RCW 69.51A.260). Since a 2017 law, patients in the database may buy immature plants, clones or seeds from a licensed producer (LCB).

Every retail sale of cannabis carries a 37 percent excise tax on the selling price (RCW 69.50.535). The tax must be reflected in the price list or quoted shelf price, and it must be itemized separately from sales tax on your receipt. It is not part of the price on which sales tax is figured. The 37 percent rate took effect July 1, 2015, replacing a 25 percent excise collected at three stages, from producer to processor, processor to retailer and retailer to buyer (chapter 4, Laws of 2015, 2nd special session).

Sales tax is then added at the store location's combined rate. The Department of Revenue's table for October 1 to December 31, 2026 lists a 6.5 percent state rate and combined rates of 10.55 percent in Seattle, 10.50 percent in Tacoma, 10.40 percent in SeaTac, 9.20 percent in Bellingham, 9.10 percent in Spokane and Blaine, and 8.90 percent in Vancouver. A purchase in Seattle therefore pays the 37 percent excise plus 10.55 percent sales tax. Rates change by quarter and by address, so the store's location sets the figure.

Medical buyers pay less. Until June 30, 2029, the excise does not apply to sales of compliant products by a medically endorsed store to qualifying patients or designated providers holding a recognition card (RCW 69.50.535), and those sales are exempt from state retail sales tax (RCW 82.08.9998); the Department of Health describes them as excise and sales tax free. A visitor with an out-of-state card cannot get a Washington recognition card, so the excise and sales tax apply, except that Department of Health high-CBD, low-THC products sold at endorsed stores are exempt from state sales tax for any buyer (RCW 69.51A.010, 82.08.9998).

Tribal stores collect their own tax. Each state-tribal cannabis agreement must impose a tribal cannabis tax of at least 100 percent of the state excise and state and local sales taxes on sales in Indian country (RCW 43.06.490), and the Revenue table carries separate codes for tribal areas, such as Puyallup Tribe in Tacoma at 10.50 percent and Lummi Nation in Bellingham at 9.20 percent. The tribal cannabis tax itself is set in each compact, which we did not read. Because the statute requires it, the excise is already inside the shelf price at every licensed store, and the register adds sales tax afterward.

No. A qualifying patient under Washington law must be a resident of the state at the time of diagnosis and must hold an authorization from a health care professional or a recognition card from the state database (RCW 69.51A.010), and the Department of Health says the same. We found no provision honoring another state's card. A visiting patient 21 or older shops as an adult-use customer under the 1 ounce, 16 ounce, 72 ounce and 7 gram limits and pays the 37 percent excise (RCW 69.50.360, 69.50.535).

For residents, the recognition card changes the limits. A patient or designated provider entered into the database may buy, in combination, up to 3 ounces of useable cannabis, 48 ounces of solid infused product, 216 ounces of liquid infused product and 21 grams of concentrate at a medically endorsed store (RCW 69.51A.210, WAC 314-55-095). Cards are issued at the store and the Department of Health must charge a $1 fee for each one (RCW 69.51A.230). Patients aged 18 to 20 with a card may shop at endorsed stores (RCW 69.50.357).

The LCB's medically endorsed list dated October 13, 2026 names 276 licenses; 273 of them are active on the main license list of the same date, while 3 (Dockside Cannabis in Shoreline, PHC Enterprise in Custer and The World Famous Cannabis Store in Chimacum) are shown there as closed, and the LCB says the list may not be completely up to date. Washington's program dates to Initiative 692 in 1998, and on July 1, 2016 the key retail sections of the Cannabis Patient Protection Act took effect, folding medical sales into licensed stores and ending collective gardens (LCB; chapter 70, Laws of 2015).

A 2026 law adds access for terminally ill patients. Ryan's law, chapter 20, Laws of 2026, effective June 11, 2026, requires hospitals, hospice care centers and nursing homes (except nursing homes run by residential habilitation centers) to permit medical use of cannabis by an admitted qualifying patient with a terminal condition beginning January 1, 2027, though not in hospital emergency departments, under a facility policy that bars smoking and vaping and keeps staff from administering it (RCW 69.51A.222). Like the rest of the program, it applies only to Washington qualifying patients.

Most visitor trouble is a civil or traffic infraction. Opening or consuming cannabis in view of the public or in a public place is a class 3 civil infraction, with a maximum penalty of $50 plus statutory assessments (RCW 69.50.445, 7.80.120). An open package, or consuming in a vehicle on a highway, is a traffic infraction, with a penalty capped at $250 before mandatory fees (RCW 46.61.745, 46.63.110). Smoking in a non-smoking hotel room or another smoke-free public place can bring a civil fine of up to $100 (RCW 70.160.070).

Over the limit, the penalty depends on weight. Possessing more than the 1 ounce adult limit but no more than 40 grams of cannabis is a misdemeanor (RCW 69.50.4014), punishable by up to 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine (RCW 9.92.030). Above 40 grams, possession of a controlled substance is a gross misdemeanor punishable by up to 180 days in jail, a fine of up to $1,000 or both for a first or second offense (up to 364 days after two prior convictions since July 1, 2023), and prosecutors are encouraged to divert such cases (RCW 69.50.4013).

Selling, growing or running a club is a felony. Manufacturing, delivering or possessing cannabis with intent to deliver outside the licensed system is a class C felony (RCW 69.50.401), as is conducting or maintaining a cannabis club (RCW 69.50.465), and a class C felony carries up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine (RCW 9A.20.021). DUI is a gross misdemeanor with at least 24 hours in jail and a $350 to $5,000 fine for a first offense (RCW 46.61.502, 46.61.5055).

Under 21, the rules are stricter. No one under 21 may possess cannabis unless they are a qualifying patient (RCW 69.50.4013), stores must keep them out (RCW 69.50.357), and a driver under 21 with any measurable THC commits a misdemeanor (RCW 46.61.503). Federal law reaches everyone: simple possession is punishable by up to a year in prison and a minimum $1,000 fine (21 U.S.C. 844), which is the law that applies at the border, at airport screening and on federal land.

The LCB's licensee list shows whether a store is licensed. The agency's Cannabis License Applicants spreadsheet dated October 13, 2026 shows 457 active cannabis retailer licenses plus 11 active social equity retailers, 468 in all, each with a trade name, license number, street address, city, county and phone. The LCB tells shoppers to check the Privilege Status column and to treat 'Pending (Issued)' as active. Its consumer page says there are over 500 licensed cannabis stores; the October 13 list shows 468 active state retail licenses, and tribal stores, which the LCB does not list, are not counted in it.

A licensed store looks a certain way. No one under 21 may enter except registered patients aged 18 to 20 at endorsed stores (RCW 69.50.357), products sit behind a counter or other barrier (WAC 314-55-079), sales run only between 8 a.m. and 12 a.m. (WAC 314-55-147), and licensees must post their license where customers can see it (LCB). Adult-use edible servings are capped at 10 milligrams of delta-9 THC and packages at 100 milligrams (WAC 314-55-095).

Smoke shops are not an alternative. Since July 23, 2023, only licensed cannabis retailers may sell products with any detectable THC, including hemp-derived and synthetic THC such as delta-8, and the LCB says such products shipped from other states are still illegal (chapter 365, Laws of 2023; LCB). Cannabis health and beauty aid products and FDA-approved hemp foods such as hemp seed oil are exempt from the license requirement.

Tribal stores are the exception to the list. The LCB says tribal retail locations are not listed on its website and suggests calling it at (360) 664-1600 to confirm whether a location is a tribal retailer; tribes operate under compacts with the state (RCW 43.06.490). The LCB's online retailer map draws on a data layer last modified October 25, 2024 that still includes 63 licenses not active on the October list, so rely on the dated spreadsheet for current status.