DC's Hottest Christmas Gift This Year is Weed

The holiday greenery in the nation's capital this year isn't mistletoe; it's marijuana. This Christmas is the first since the DC marijuana legalization, Initiative 71, went into effect earlier this year, and that means DC residents can legally give skunky-smelling Christmas presents to each other.

“It's a lovely holiday season because you can give cannabis to your friends in Washington DC,” said initiative organizer, political activist, and all-around DC gadfly Adam Eidinger. “Giving cannabis has become like the latest, ‘Hey, I baked a pie. I grew this. Would you like it?’ And it is a very special gift,” he toldFox News 5.

DC's legalization doesn't allow for the taxation and sale of marijuana—and Congress saw to that again just last week, when it included a rider barring the District from taxing and regulating marijuana in the omnibus budget bill—but it does allow for gifting up to an ounce at...

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