The neighborhood activists who legalized cannabis possession in the District of Columbia were on the trail of greater diversion Saturday, smoking before the White House to dissent the way government laws order the drug.
“This is about needless incarceration,” Dave Anderson stated as he walked along a 51-foot inflatable blunt that protesters planned to walk from 15th Street NW and Pennsylvania Avenue NW to the gates outside of the north lawn of the White House. “We’ve got local momentum in D.C., so this is an opportunity for a dialogue.”
D.C. voters endorsed the authorization of cannabis in November 2014, and the law got to be successful in February 2015. It permits occupants to have and develop little measures of pot, however, it bans the deal, conveyance and open utilization of the weed. The law does not have any significant bearing to governmentally possessed area, including elected parks.
The legalization ballot measure, which was endorsed by 70 percent of voters, was initiated by DCMJ, a nearby association shaped in 2013 to advocate for cannabis clients in the District. What’s more, on Saturday, that same gathering revived a few hundred activists to infringe upon the law and expand cannabis on the governmentally possessed area before the White House as an approach to get their message out broadly.
Presently, weed is delegated a Schedule 1 drug, which the Drug Enforcement Administration characterizes as “drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” Heroin, LSD, and Ecstasy are likewise named Schedule 1 drugs.
“While we have been able to drastically reduce arrests for marijuana possession in the District of Columbia, millions of Americans across the United States are not so lucky,” the group wrote. “As long as cannabis is treated in the same category of drugs as heroin, with no accepted medical use, police will continue to arrest and lock up our brothers and sisters.”
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