DENVER — Long before tourists started converging here to sample freshly legalized marijuana in the form of gummy bears and chocolate brownies, thousands of Coloradans were cultivating the medicinal plants for their own consumption and to share with ailing friends.
Now that the Trump administration is pledging to closely monitor states where the federally outlawed substance has been legalized, regulators here, and in Oregon and Washington, are trying to tame what has proven to be an unruly crop of home growers.
The biggest concern is that outsized home growers may be selling their produce across state lines.
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Since February 2015, DC has had the following marijuana laws:
ReplyDeleteAs a result, it is legal for a person who is at least 21 years old to:
Possess two ounces or less of marijuana;
Transfer one ounce or less of marijuana to another person who is at least 21 years old, so long as there is no payment made or any other type of exchange of goods or services;
Cultivate within their residence up to six marijuana plants, no more than three of which are mature;
Possess marijuana-related drug paraphernalia – such as bongs, cigarette rolling papers, and cigar wrappers – that is associated with one ounce or less of marijuana; or
Use marijuana on private property.
What is still a criminal violation?
A person can still be arrested for:
Selling any amount of marijuana to another person;
Possessing more than two ounces of marijuana;
Operating a vehicle or boat under the influence of marijuana; or
Smoking, eating, or drinking marijuana – or holding or carrying a lighted roll of paper or other lighted smoking equipment filled with marijuana – in any public space, such as:
On any street, sidewalk, alley, park, or parking area;
In a vehicle on any street, alley, park, or parking area; or
Any place to which the public is invited.
Marijuana possession by persons under 21 years of age is not allowed.
8:07 am NOW you see the hypocrisy in all of these laws, nit just marijuana laws... They do things to keep getting elected and then revert right back to the same old sleaze bag... Back to the same song and dance...
ReplyDeleteJust like MD, they decriminalized it up to 10 grams, yet you can get locked up for paraphernalia, such as the bag the marijuana is in...
Maryland is always a day late and a dollar short with its legislation. It can take a piece of law directly from another state where it's working like a Swiss watch and turn it into a constipated mess with more riders than than a Mumbai passenger train.
ReplyDeleteThe closer you get to dc the crazier the people become.
ReplyDeleteIf DC isn't a state, yet the capitol of the nation how can their law conflict with Federal law? Shouldn't the law in DC be the law of the land. Hypocrisy.
ReplyDelete1:28...looks like you probably skipped civics class.
ReplyDeleteI know, I know....whats's "civics class"?
Son, that was funny.