The Washington Department of Agriculture has proposed hiring a “cannabis coordinator” to direct the agency’s expanding role in regulating and promoting the state’s billion-dollar marijuana industry.

The coordinator’s duties could include overseeing a new program to certify organically grown marijuana, for the health conscious pot buyer.

“There seems to be consumer interest in that,” WSDA spokesman Hector Castro said. “We have done this for other commodities, obviously.”

WSDA proposes organic marijuana certification