Pete Holmes figured it would be Canada first. Seattle's city attorney thought his northern neighbours would be the first to take marijuana possession out of the courts.
But at 12:01 a.m. Thursday, after a successful ballot initiative last month, Washington State enters the history books by legalizing possession of up to an ounce of pot.
"In a lot of ways you're way ahead of us," Holmes says of Canada, but not when it comes to taking the crime out of pot use.
