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Lawmakers encourage Bowser to reconsider declaring pot legal in D.C.
City leaders declared Tuesday that marijuana possession will become legal in the District at 12:01 a.m. Thursday — but warned the public that many pot-related activities will remain illegal, including selling the drug, growing it outdoors, possessing it in federally subsidized housing and smoking it anywhere in public.
In remarks to the D.C. Council, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser and Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier offered their first public guidance on Initiative 71 — when it will take effect, what it will mean and how it will be enforced — since the ballot measure was overwhelmingly approved in the fall.
Uncertainty remained, however, about whether Initiative 71 really will be the law of the city come Thursday. Late Tuesday, Republican congressional leaders sent Bowser a letter urging her to reconsider pot legalization, which the letter described as a “knowing and willful violation of the law.”
City leaders declared Tuesday that marijuana possession will become legal in the District at 12:01 a.m. Thursday — but warned the public that many pot-related activities will remain illegal, including selling the drug, growing it outdoors, possessing it in federally subsidized housing and smoking it anywhere in public.
In remarks to the D.C. Council, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser and Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier offered their first public guidance on Initiative 71 — when it will take effect, what it will mean and how it will be enforced — since the ballot measure was overwhelmingly approved in the fall.
Uncertainty remained, however, about whether Initiative 71 really will be the law of the city come Thursday. Late Tuesday, Republican congressional leaders sent Bowser a letter urging her to reconsider pot legalization, which the letter described as a “knowing and willful violation of the law.”