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[glatt]

I've been smelling plenty of pot in DC since the law changed, but most people are discretely smoking it, even if outdoors.

This morning however, there was a guy smoking a pretty big joint at the outside seating of Potbelly right next to my building. This is corporate America type stuff. It's amazing how things have changed.

[captainhook455]

Originally Posted by glatt

I've been smelling plenty of pot in DC since the law changed, but most people are discretely smoking it, even if outdoors.

This morning however, there was a guy smoking a pretty big joint at the outside seating of Potbelly right next to my building. This is corporate America type stuff. It's amazing how things have changed.

Why what law changed in DC?

[glatt]

The DC pot law is complicated, and I don't really understand it fully.

It's still illegal to sell, but possession of a small amount is fine. And giving it away is legal. So lots of pot places are selling something else and throwing a joint in for free as a gift with purchase of the other item. Smoking in public is illegal, I think, but I haven't seen it enforced.

Of course it's still against federal law, so you could be arrested at any time by one of the couple thousand feds walking around, but they don't seem to care.

DC legalized pot posession, but Congress controls the purse strings for DC and put a clause in the budget saying that the DC government can't spend even one penny on regulating pot sales. So the local government had intended to set up rules for a marketplace, but because of Congress, there are none, and it's illegal to sell.