Nadeau: Vote Will 'Tie Our Hands' In Regulating Pot The D.C. Council voted Tuesday to impose a permanent ban on private marijuana smoking clubs, ending months of political hand-wringing over where to allow residents to consume pot. In a 7-to-6 vote, the council made permanent a 90-day ban on pot clubs in the nation's capital, where marijuana possession is legal though still a federal offense. The ban's passage did not come easily: Democratic council members Brianne Nadeau and Vincent Orange both tried to delay the vote, saying a permanent ban would undercut a task force studying how to regulate pot clubs. Set up in February, the task force has 120 days to offer recommendations to lawmakers. [continues 483 words]
District Split Over Legality of Drug In the latest twist in the District's struggles over legal marijuana, the D.C. Council Tuesday moved to permanently ban pot clubs in the city, just two months after the body approved a task force to study the issue. Whether pot can be consumed legally in private clubs is just one of the thorny issues the District has faced since it legalized cultivation and possession of small amounts of marijuana but continued to keep sales of the drug illegal. [continues 709 words]
An Oakland-based company has started delivery cold-pressed juice in the District - with a side of free marijuana. As a way to skirt the District's law against selling cannabis - while still taking advantage of residents being allowed possess up to two ounces of pot - HighSpeed is offering to sell residents juice and "gift" them some marijuana with their order. The company started in Oakland in 2015 and begin deliveries in the District about two months, having already served about 300 customers, according to HighSpeed. [continues 394 words]
Rally Pressures Obama to Deschedule Marijuana The local activists who helped legalize marijuana possession in the District were on the trail of bigger game Saturday, lighting up in front of the White House to protest the way federal laws classify the drug. "This is about needless incarceration," Dave Anderson said as he walked along a 51-foot inflatable joint that protesters planned to march from 15th Street NW and Pennsylvania Avenue NW to the gates outside of the north lawn of the White House. "We've got local momentum in D.C., so this is an opportunity for a dialogue." [continues 716 words]
