D.C. hosts nation’s biggest legal marijuana giveaway
Proponents say that a crop from amateur growers could increase supply and reduce the market for illegal street sales
Washington Post (US)
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Thursday, March 26, 2015
With D.C. police officers looking on, hundreds of city residents lined up and then walked away from an Adams Morgan restaurant carrying baggies containing marijuana seeds. Taking advantage of a ballot measure approved last fall by voters that legalized possession of the plant, the unprecedented giveaway scattered what organizers said were thousands of pot seeds to cultivate in homes and apartments across the nation’s capital. (See also: Hundreds now have marijuana seeds. But can they grow it? | Can Washington’s gift economy in marijuana work?)
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