The Rolling Stone Guide to Legal Pot: Washington, D.C.

Nothing in Washington, D.C. is normal these days – and that's especially the case with our burgeoning marijuana industry. Voters here resoundingly approved a ballot initiative in 2014 that legalized recreational pot, but the Constitution gives Congress unique authority to control the decisions made by local officials who run the federal city. So after local voters spoke, Congress intervened

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