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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lobby your DC rep to pass a law making smoking weed while working as delivery driver a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $5,000. That will resolve this issue quickly if steep financial penalties are attached to the behavior. [/quote]

It's already illegal: https://mpdc.dc.gov/marijuana[/quote]

Yes but the financial penalties need to be very steep and the law needs to be enforced to actually deter the behavior. Just giving people a verbal warning or citation with a small fine is completely ineffective. If you want to prevent the behavior it needs to be a very painful and punitive fine amount so people reconsider doing it in the first place. After the unemployed or lightly employed potheads hear about a friend getting a $5,000 fine for smoking week while delivering someone food at least some of them will decide not to do it anymore.[/quote]

The law already says that smoking weed in public is punishable by a fine of $1000 plus 60 days in jail, and I'm not sure that increasing the fine to $5000 would accomplish that much. I agree that it's an enforcement issue. To all the people blaming Democrats, why isn't Trump's National Guard doing anything on this?[/quote]

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