Can’t Keep Up With Pot Policy In D.C.? Here’s An Explainer

We’re nearly a year into the District’s experiment with legal marijuana. But the rules on the books in the nation’s capital are very different from the ones in places like Colorado, where full-scale legalization is in place.

D.C. lawmakers are still debating where the city should go next on pot – and we’ll be exploring the issues in play on Friday’s special edition of The Politics Hour with guests Adam Eidinger and David Grosso. To help you prepare for the show, we asked WAMU 88.5 reporter Martin Austermuhle (whose dogged reporting on the issue has earned him the sarcastic title of WAMU 88.5 senior marijuana correspondent) to give us a primer on the state of the District’s cannabis debate.

What’s with marijuana in D.C.? Is it legal?

Yes — and no.

In 2014, the D.C. Council decriminalized the possession of marijuana, dropping the fine for having any less than two ounces...

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