<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div>Courtesy of today's (November 14, 2014) Spokesman-Review.</div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; clear: both; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 28px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">Prosser man to auction 500 pounds of marijuana</h1><p style="margin-bottom: 21px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">PROSSER, Wash. – A marijuana grower in Prosser is planning to auction about 500 pounds of pot in Washington’s first state-sanctioned marijuana auction. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 21px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Randy Williams, the owner of Fireweed Farms in the Yakima Valley, said the auction will occur Saturday at his 450-plant outdoor farm. The marijuana will be sold in lots ranging from 5 pounds to 100 pounds, the Oregonian reported Thursday. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 21px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is the first pot auction in the state, which legalized recreational marijuana use in 2012, said Mikhail Carpenter, a spokesman for the Washington Liquor Control Board, which oversees the marijuana industry. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 21px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Only people licensed to produce, process and sell marijuana in Washington may participate in the auction, which will be attended by state marijuana enforcement authorities, Carpenter said. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 21px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Williams said he has had so much interest that he’s worried he won’t have enough parking. Everyone who comes to the auction has to bring their state-issued processor or retailer license. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 21px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By auctioning off his pot, he said, he doesn’t have to bother with packaging. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 21px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He also opted to auction off his crop because he doesn’t know how to set a price, Williams said. He charged $1,500 a pound for 68 pounds he sold earlier this year to help cover expenses, he said. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 21px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I just want to get rid of it and take off and go on vacation for a while,” he said. “Whatever I get, I get.” </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 21px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The auction is a sign of where the industry is headed, said Greg James, publisher of Marijuana Venture, a Seattle-based trade magazine for the marijuana industry. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 21px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The cannabis at the auction will be dried, trimmed and lab-tested. An advertisement for the event showed large outdoor marijuana plants on Williams’ farm, which produces more than two dozen strains.</span></p></div><div>--------------------</div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That's 2,000 pounds of the product grown by farmer Randy Williams of Fireweed Farm in Prosser, <br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><img src="cid:F9C4A79D-6F04-4BAB-A4B0-B2E4E61F4173" alt="image1.jpeg" id="F9C4A79D-6F04-4BAB-A4B0-B2E4E61F4173"></div><div><a href="http://www.TomandRodna.com/Photos/Prosser_Marijuana_Auction.jpg">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Photos/Prosser_Marijuana_Auction.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>One suggestion, Mr. Williams . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Don't Bogart that Joint"</div><div><a href="http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Dont_Bogart_that_Joint.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Dont_Bogart_that_Joint.mp3</a><br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>