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Old 08-08-2018, 07:19 AM   #3904
glatt
 
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The DC pot law is complicated, and I don't really understand it fully.

It's still illegal to sell, but possession of a small amount is fine. And giving it away is legal. So lots of pot places are selling something else and throwing a joint in for free as a gift with purchase of the other item. Smoking in public is illegal, I think, but I haven't seen it enforced.

Of course it's still against federal law, so you could be arrested at any time by one of the couple thousand feds walking around, but they don't seem to care.

DC legalized pot posession, but Congress controls the purse strings for DC and put a clause in the budget saying that the DC government can't spend even one penny on regulating pot sales. So the local government had intended to set up rules for a marketplace, but because of Congress, there are none, and it's illegal to sell.
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