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In a surprising last minute move, cannabis reform activists in Washington DC are hoping to place a measure to legalize cannabis sales on this year’s general election ballot. 

DC voters already legalized low-level marijuana possession and home grows through a ballot measure in 2014, but it is still illegal to sell weed in the nation’s capital. This confusing measure has led to a “grey market” for weed sales, where entrepreneurs have launched services that offer “free” weed in exchange for a “donation.” This often looks like buying a T-shirt, a drink, or even a painting by a dog that comes with a “free” sack of weed. 

Most city officials and residents are fully in favor of creating a taxed and regulated adult-use weed market, but Republican lawmakers have tacked a rider to the annual federal budget bill that specifically prevents DC from spending its own tax dollars to create such a system. Faced with these challenges, the Modern Day Cannabis Justice group (MDCJ) is hoping to allow the city’s voters to decide whether or not they support legal pot sales.

The “New Modern Day Cannabis Justice Reform Act” would legalize “the possession, to the extent possible by current law the use, sale, and purchase of cannabis and CBD products for any person over the age of 21 or older,” Marijuana Moment reports. “Where not possible the initiative will make police enforcement and prosecution the lowest priority.” The measure would also prevent police from using marijuana as an excuse to conduct searches or traffic stops, and would allow for expungements of former cannabis crimes.

The proposed measure would create provisions allowing police dogs that are trained to sniff out weed to be retrained to sniff out explosives and firearms. “Dogs are trained to sniff marijuana, but meanwhile we have bombs, we have school shootings, we have so many other things that are in play right now that I think that we should redirect the funding for dogs… out of the cannabis industry,” explained Dawn Lee-Carty, the campaign’s executive director, to Marijuana Moment.

The initiative would also limit all weed business licenses to individuals who have lived in the city for at least two years. “We don’t want outsiders to come in and take over our business. It’s already happened,” Lee-Carty said, noting that outside businesses already dominate the city’s medical cannabis industry. “You have a lot of out-of-state, people that come in — big money interests that come in — and they sweep up the opportunities that people in our community could have.”

Activists are hoping to get the measure onto this year’s election ballot, which will be a difficult task to say the least, considering the election is less than 90-days away at the time of this writing. The city Board of Elections will meet on September 2 to determine whether the initiative can even be approved for this year. If the board approves the proposal, the campaign must still collect 24,385 valid signatures before the deadline. 

A campaign to place a psychedelics decriminalization measure on this year’s ballot struggled to collect enough signatures in time, although they did eventually succeed. MDCJ has not even started collecting signatures yet, but was able to collect 40,000 signatures on an independent petition showing support for the measure.

The campaign also faces a second major challenge: the Congressional rider blocking the city from funding a legal weed regulation framework. But, in spite of these challenges, Lee-Carty believes they will succeed.

“Our goal is to push hard and — if we have to take it to Congress, whatever levels that we have to take — to ensure that it is a different cannabis climate for the safety of the patient, for the economy, for those who… participate and want to be store owners for cannabis, we should have access just like big moneyed interests have access without being washed out,” Lee-Carty explained.

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If you feel good about buying legal weed in your state, you are not alone — in fact, you’re among the majority of fellow citizens. Further, the longer that weed has been legal where you live, it’s likely you feel even happier about it. 

According to a new study published in the journal Addictive Behaviors, most residents in weed-legal states hold a “positive perception” of the commercial cannabis trade. Respondents also said they’re happy to patronize legal pot business over having to rely on illicit dealers.

The study further concluded that these good feelings held especially true in places where pot has been legal the longest.

To gather the data, researchers from the University of Waterloo, School of Public Health surveyed 5,530 adults presently living in the weed-legal states of Alaska, California, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.

“The current findings suggest generally positive perceptions of the legal cannabis market,” the study states. “Most respondents, including frequent cannabis consumers, perceived legal cannabis to be of equal or greater quality and convenience, and safer to buy and use than cannabis from illegal sources.”

Higher prices for legal weed came up as a concern, but even a majority of those who mentioned price acknowledged that consumer costs usually drop once the market has time to develop.

“This data once again affirms that most voters do not experience ‘buyer’s remorse’ following marijuana legalization,” NORML Deputy Director Paul Armentano said in a statement. “In the minds of most Americans, these laws are operating as voters intended and in a manner that is consistent with their expectations.”

Armentano pointed out, as well, that no state that has legalized cannabis has ever repealed its decision to do so.

We can now add this study to the ever heightening heap of data clearly indicating that the people want legalization and the overwhelming majority of us feel lit AF about it.

In fact, a November 2019 Pew Research study found that two-thirds of all U.S. citizens favor full legalization, with the opposition dropping from 52 percent in 2010 to just 32 percent today.

More recently, a June 2020 Gallup poll determined that 70 percent of U.S. citizens found smoking weed to be morally righteous — and 50 percent of those responding even identified themselves as Republicans. Now that  is progress.

Look, Uncle Sam: The public has spoken. We just want to light up in peace and not get in trouble for it. So, it’s time for our lawmakers to get with the program and entirely legalize weed ASAP.

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