Pot shop resists local ban, heads to court

With all the complications that local bans have caused for Washington’s recreational pot market, two state-licensed businessmen have decided to take matters into their own hands.

Tedd Wetherbee and Mike Henery own the Gallery, a pot shop-art gallery mash-up that celebrated its grand opening in Parkland, Pierce County, on March 1. Media attention hasn’t focused on the thousands of dollars in artwork that adorns the Soho-style space, but rather the business’s dubious legality.

The Gallery is the first state-licensed recreational marijuana outlet to open in a county that outlaws recreational mari...