Turns out, smoking pot outside the White House gets you invited inside
Adam Eidinger had been sending letters to the White House asking for a meeting since he led a successful ballot measure fight to legalize pot in the nation’s capital.
The letters asked for a “Bud Summit” with President Obama’s drug policy advisers to talk about removing pot from the nation’s list of most dangerous drugs.
Eidinger, however, never received a reply until he tried something more aggressive. He organized an illegal smoke-in outside the White House, complete with a 51-foot replica of a marijuana joint painted with the phrase “Obama, Deschedule Cannabis Now!” The protest ended with several dozen activists simultaneously lighting up — and not getting arrested — sending a cloud of marijuana smoke wafting over the north lawn of the White House.
And unlike letters, that, apparently, got the attention of officials inside.
A White House spokesman on Wednesday confirmed that Eidinger and a small group of advocates...
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