On Inauguration Day, Marijuana Activists in D.C. Will Give out 4,200 Joints
At 4:20 a.m. on a recent day, a group of marijuana activists, passing around the occasional joint, stood in line outside the Russell Senate Office Building for the first day of the confirmation hearings of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), nominated to be attorney general. They wanted the man who once told his colleagues that “good people don’t smoke marijuana” to see them inside — and to smell their pot-stained clothes.
These dozen or so activists are part of DCMJ, the group formerly known as the D.C. Cannabis Campaign, which was behind the unlikely but successful effort to legalize marijuana in the nation’s capital in 2015. They didn’t achieve the reforms they had hoped for under President Obama, but his administration did adopt a policy of noninterference with state marijuana laws.
They now fear that a Justice Department led by Sessions could set back efforts nationwide to legalize marijuana and...
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