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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what is Bowser trying to do and what's her motivation? What annoys me about DC is if you give an inch people take a mile. That's why I respect NIMBYS - they look at the next 3,4 moves beyond the one under discussion. I give them credit for preventing or slowing a lot of bad , unintended consequences. Not this pot situation tho. It seems like a lot of really kind hearted people were just duped. The law I voted for is not this.[/quote]

NP, I am actually working on a doc about decriminalization in the district, I think citizens will be much happier with a fully realized recreation market than they are now with the current situation. A poster above mentioned non-enforcement, but that is not the case. Arrests for public consumption went up in DC after decriminalization, unlike most places around the country (fun fact: A black person is 11 times more likely to be arrested for public consumption in the district, according to e report by drug policy.org)

There are vendors operating out of homes and in your neighborhoods, working around initiative 71. If there was a legal rec market set up, the private parties happening all around town would be forced into to open, and would need to apply to operate in specified zones. The tax benefit would also be huge, The fact that congress blocked the rec market in the first place was a huge disservice to the city. It would be really shortsighted for DC to have come this close to legal weed, without going all in, and part of the valid complaints you all have in this thread could improve with full regulation.

Another comment about lack of enforcement, the police are working to cleanup parts of the city in this regard, but their efforts are being spent cleaning certain wards and specifically stopping pop-ups, and busting vendors big and small. They would have more time to enforce public consumption if these vendors were allowed to operate in a fully legal fashion, instead of a strange grey area/loop hole way they operate now![/quote]

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