Exchanging Marijuana 'Gifts' for 'Donations' Is Not, Alas, Legal In D.C.
High Speed Delivery charges customers in Washington, D.C., $11 for 15 ounces of orange juice, which seems like a lot even if it’s delivered to your door within 20 minutes. But for another $44, you canexpect an eighth-ounce of marijuana along with your juice, which is not bad for a city where it’s still illegal to sell the stuff.
You could do better in Denver, but D.C. is not Denver. Unlike Colorado’s Amendment 64, the 2012 ballot measure that legalized commercial production and distribution of recreational marijuana, the District’s Initiative 71, passed in 2014, legalized only home cultivation, possession, and sharing “without remuneration.”
How does High Speed Delivery, which started in Oakland, California, and expanded to the nation’s capital in January, get around that restriction? It doesn’t, not really. But here is how it pretends to get around that restriction: When you order one of the service’s beverages, which include six kinds of lemonade as...
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