A wave of medical marijuana dispensaries recently opened on Capitol Hill won’t be pushed back just yet but any hope of a near-term overhaul of state laws has died in Olympia, the Seattle Times reports:

An intensive effort to overhaul Washington’s medical-marijuana law died Tuesday in Olympia, leaving cities and law enforcement to muddle through changes that will clip short the boom in dispensaries.

Medical-marijuana champion Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles said lawmakers were too focused on the state budget to fix confusing provisions left over from Gov. Chris Gregoire’s partial veto of an earlier bill.

“By far, this represents the greatest disappointment of my legislative career,” she said in a statement. She plans to take up the issue again next year.

As a result, a law will take effect in July that allows 45-plant collective gardens for the first time while undercutting dispensaries’ best legal defense. Cities around the state will have to choose between tolerating dispensaries or cracking down.