Comment on Yakima pot producers step past competition to stay in business

Jamie Muffett hopes to keep Sticky Budz, a marijuana producing and processing business he’s running, in operation — and he’s willing to fight to make sure it does. His business, which employs 16 full-time workers and is located outside Zillah in unincorporated Yakima County, is licensed by the state Liquor and Cannabis Board. That, Muffett says, should provide county officials and residents assurance that the business is well supervised and in compliance with state laws. “It’s so incredibly regulated by the LCB, I think that should give everyone peace of mind,” Muffett said at the business one recent morning. Even so, there’s a threat to Muffett’s business and others like it in Yakima County. Officials want to start enforcing the county’s 2014 ban on pot businesses in unincorporated areas of the county.