A Washington State House committee has advanced a bill that would allow adults 21 and older to grow up to six cannabis plants at home for personal use.
On Friday the House Consumer Protection and Business Committee passed the legislation, HB 1449, from Rep. Shelley Kloba (D), on a 9–6 vote along party lines.
“This is an important bill,” Kloba said before the vote, noting that supporters have introduced the proposal year after year for nearly a decade.
“We legalized so much with regard to cannabis back when we passed I-502, but what we didn’t allow for was this,” she said, referring to the state’s voter-approved legalization law that was enacted at the ballot in 2021. “The fact is, today it remains a Class C felony to grow a plant at home whose products you can buy legally in a store. It’s time to make this change.”
If enacted into law, the bill would allow adults 21 and older to grow up to six cannabis plants at home for personal use, with households capped at 15 plants regardless of how many adults reside on the premises. People could also lawfully keep the marijuana produced by those plants despite the state’s
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