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Pot-Dispensing Rabbi: DC Residents Deserve Legal Access to Marijuana

Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 02/27/2015 - 15:03

Rabbi Jeffrey Kahn lives in Washington, D.C., where he and his family own and operate Takoma Wellness Center.

Congress needs to back off and respect the wishes of D.C. residents to legalize marijuana.

Earlier this week, adult possession and use of marijuana became legal in the District of Columbia. There were no parties in the street or any kind of public consumption of marijuana. No one was hurt or arrested. No one got sick or died (at least not from marijuana consumption). The sky did not fall. One might not have noticed at all, had not Members of Congress from far-off jurisdictions threatened to jail our Mayor and Council and bully the residents of the nation’s capital into submission to their will.

Congress is doing its best to prevent D.C. from legalizing marijuana. As Yogi Berra might have said: “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” In 1998,...

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