“The case arises from the state’s attempt to collect sales taxes from a medical marijuana dispensary. But lawyer Douglas Hiatt said it could throw a wrench in Washington’s plans for collecting taxes on recreational marijuana, too.  The author of Washington’s recreational pot law, Alison Holcomb, disagreed.  Hiatt is representing the dispensary’s operator, Martin Nickerson, who is simultaneously being prosecuted criminally for marijuana distribution and targeted by the state Department of Revenue for not collecting and remitting taxes on the pot he was allegedly distributing. Nickerson can’t pay the tax without incriminating himself in the criminal case, Hiatt argued.”

http://www.boston.com/health/2014/05/09/federal-lawsuit-questions-washington-can-tax-marijuana/dzQBlomNIGBLMZlYQ7KSfO/story.html

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