SEATTLE — The kitchen in the weather-beaten beachfront cabin near Olympia is cramped and freckled with mysterious brown stains. A shaggy dog named Butter is poking around, and a quarter-sized spider dangles at the window.
It’s not the best situation, Jim Chaney acknowledges, for a home-based business making marijuana-infused products, called “medibles.”
But in Washington’s scantily regulated medical-marijuana industry, no one is checking how such food and drink products are made, or how safe they are.
And there’s a lot to check.
A dizzying array of cannabis-infused products — from taco mix to cotton candy, from pulled pork to carbonated colas — have begun