D.C. Legalizes Marijuana in 2014 Election

There may be a haze in the air because the marijuana initiative was passed in D.C.

Initiative 71 won 64.62 percent of the votes, over 96,000 voters, during the Tuesday elections.

According to the District Board of Elections, the following will be legal in the District for anyone who is at least 21-years-old if the proposal passes:

• Possession of up to two ounces of marijuana for personal use
• Grow up to six cannabis plants with no more than three of them being mature and flowering at the person’s primary residence
• Transfer, but not sell, up to one ounce marijuana to another person who is at least 21-years-old
• Use or sell drug paraphernalia for the use of marijuana

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D.C. follows the lead of Colorado and Washington where marijuana is already legal. Oregon and Alaska will be voting on the drug’s legalization Nov. 4.

The DC Cannabis Campaign was created by residents in the area who believe that the marijuana laws needed to be changed.

District residents should not expect a smoke fest outside of the White House in celebration.

“We’re not going to do it on the street, I will be upset if I see people smoking weed on the streets,” DC Cannabis Campaign supporter Adam Eidinger told The Washington Post.

An almost 2-to-1 margin in favor of the initiative was found in a NBC4/Washington Post/Marist DC poll conducted Sept. 14 to 16.

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