What could it cost Representative Andy Harris to be Congress’s leading voice against DC’s legalization of marijuana? Perhaps his career in national politics, according to a new poll of primary voters in the conservative Republican’s Maryland district which shows him losing badly to one of his three challengers.

The gym rats who join the still-under-construction recreation centre in central Denver, Colo., will owe their workouts to weed smokers.

In Pueblo County, south of Denver, students will soon be able to walk to school on a sidewalk paid for by marijuana tax revenue, or apply to the world's first cannabis-funded scholarship program.

"We're taking dollars that were previously going to drug cartels in Mexico and using them to provide opportunity and education to the next generation," says Pueblo County Commissioner Sal Pace. Elected officials there recently approved the use of $2.5 million U.S. in pot taxes to fund a mix of community projects.

The D.C. Council’s surprise see-saw on loosening marijuana laws Tuesday — and promise to revisit the issue within a month — has set up a vexing period of high-stakes negotiations that could put the council on a collision course with Mayor Muriel E. Bowser and with a Republican-controlled Congress that wishes D.C. voters never legalized weed in the first place.

WASHINGTON — It was legal until suddenly it wasn’t.

On Tuesday, the D.C. City Council voted to dissolve a ban on marijuana use in private businesses, only to reinstate the ban 20 minutes later.

It led to brief confusion with some council members, who weren’t exactly sure what they agreed to.

Before the vote, the majority of the council didn’t see the need for an emergency extension of the ban, so the panel decided to let marijuana be used in private clubs.

“Reissuing a blanket ban on all consumption not in a residence is not a good way to move forward,” said Councilwoman Brianne Nadeau, Ward 1.

Councilman Vincent Orange said he was concerned about citizens who can’t use marijuana in their homes, like those who live in public housing, for instance.

On Dec. 22, 2015, Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department detained Nicholas Cunningham and Evonne Lidoff for misdemeanor distribution of marijuana, through Kush Gods, Cunningham’s business that exchanges cannabis for contributions.

When the District’s voters passed Initiative 71, restricted property and cultivation of cannabis ended up being legal. And while the retail sale of marijuana had not been legalized, the law made it possible for individuals to transfer up to one ounce of cannabis to another individual.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man accused of running a business known as "Kush Gods" that openly sold marijuana brownies and other pot-laced edibles on the streets of Washington has been released from custody — and he's anything but apologetic.

District of Columbia police announced Tuesday that Nicholas Cunningham, 30, and an employee, Evonne Lidoff, 18, were facing misdemeanor charges of marijuana distribution. They were released after their initial court appearances and ordered to stay away from the nightlife districts where police say they were operating.

THIS Christmas cannabis growers are wrapping up pot as presents for their friends – and it is 100 per cent legal. After a law change in February, this is the first time people in Washington D.C., USA, have legally been able to give the drug as a gift. Activist Adam Eidinger pushed for the change in the law and will be giving cannabis as gifts on Friday. He told Fox 5 News: “It's a lovely holiday season because you can give cannabis to your friends in Washington D.C. “Giving cannabis has become like the latest, ‘Hey, I baked a pie. I grew this. “Would you like it?’ And it is a very special gift.” Eidinger is focused on making sure people know how to smoke the drug legally.

Speaking at the High Times Business Summit 2015 in Washington, D.C., Scott Jordan, Director of Business Development for Dynamic Alternative Finance, laid out his top 10 tips for cannabusinesses forced to think outside the box for financing. Then there was an extra that may trump all others.

Jordan is a self-described “debt guy,” focused on helping entrepreneurs protect their equity, and his 10 tips are as follows:

Christmas is approaching fast and this is a big week for people to load up on gifts to place under their tree.

Since Initiative 71 became legal back in February, it means this is the first holiday season you can legally give marijuana as a present to people over the age of 21 in the District of Columbia.

This is certainly a controversial subject, but marijuana activists estimate there are at least 500 home marijuana growers in the District.

For Adam Eidinger, it is a holly, jolly season as he wraps up some gifts for friends.

The holiday greenery in the nation's capital this year isn't mistletoe; it's marijuana. This Christmas is the first since the DC marijuana legalization, Initiative 71, went into effect earlier this year, and that means DC residents can legally give skunky-smelling Christmas presents to each other.

“It's a lovely holiday season because you can give cannabis to your friends in Washington DC,” said initiative organizer, political activist, and all-around DC gadfly Adam Eidinger. “Giving cannabis has become like the latest, ‘Hey, I baked a pie. I grew this. Would you like it?’ And it is a very special gift,” he toldFox News 5.