Can you grow pot in your D.C. apartment? It depends on who you ask

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Erin Flammer has been thinking of growing some marijuana.

While in most U.S. cities that would be illegal, the management consultant, 34, lives in D.C., and decided she might take advantage of a law, enacted almost exactly a year ago, allowing individuals to cultivate up to six plants — no more than three that are mature at any one time — in their homes.

But first, she had to ask her roommates.

Flammer shares a group house in Petworth with three others. “I don’t know if any of us use marijuana except for maybe one,” she says. “It would just be something to gift to people.”

None of her roommates had an issue with growing some plants in their backyard. “We all know the legal amount,” she says.

Less clear, though, is whether she needs to ask her landlord. “The lease doesn’t have any legal stipulations about marijuana in it....

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