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Washington Post: Odds are increasing that D.C. will vote on legalizing marijuana — despite Congress

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“Sixteen years ago, D.C. activists gathered signatures to let voters decide if the District should be among the first in the nation to legalize medical marijuana. Then Congress stepped in, and city officials were not even allowed to count the ballots that voters had cast.

Inside a rented house in Northwest Washington, behind a shaggy bear skin rug strung up as a makeshift curtain and amid rollaway beds set up for signature gatherers who have come from as far away as California and Colorado, there’s growing anxiety that history is about to repeat itself.

Organizers for Initiative 71, a measure that would fully legalize possession of marijuana in the District, plan to announce this week that they are closing in on 60,000 signatures — a comfortable buffer over the 22,600 needed to ensure the measure qualifies for the November ballot.”

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SOURCE: Aaron Davis, The Washington Post

DCist: Marijuana Activists Hoping D.C. Won’t Leave Legalization Effort High And Dry

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Photo by Matt Cohen, DCist
“I have to say, I’m a little nervous,” Adam Eidinger admits. “Based on the stack I saw downstairs, that’s under 2,000 signatures.” It’s Memorial Day and Eidinger, the chairman of the D.C. Cannabis Campaign, is fretting over the amount of signatures his petitioners have turned in for the week. His goal is to have at least 10,000 signatures by day’s end in order to be on pace with the July 7th deadline to collect at least 22,373.

For the past several years, Eidinger and what’s now known as the Cannabis Campaign have been working diligently to get marijuana legalized in the District of Columbia. In January, they introduced a ballot initiative to legalize the possession and home cultivation of small amounts of marijuana. After some delay from the Board of Elections, the ballot initiative was approved and the group started collecting signatures on April 23, several months after they hoped to begin.

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SOURCE: Matt Cohen, DCist.com

NBC Washington: Campaign to Legalize Home Marijuana in D.C. Hits Hurdles

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Source: Tom Sherwood, NBC Washington

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Washington City Paper: Don’t Bogart that Ballot, Dude*
* The DC Cannabis Campaign does not want people to think Adam Eidinger’s comment at the end of the article is reflective of everyone working on the campaign. He has apologized for his remarks.

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Join the DC Cannabis Consumers Association

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Join the DC Cannabis Consumers Association!

Photo Credit: Team Muriel

Now that thousands of seeds have been planted throughout the District of Columbia, it’s time to share in the bounty. For the ridiculous price of only $420.00, you can join the District’s newest association. Your exclusive membership will entitle you to a gifted ounce every month throughout the year grown by the District’s most reputable growers.

The DC Cannabis Consumers Association will share locally grown cannabis buds & seeds, exchange gardening tips, and help grow DC’s green thumb into one of the largest in the world. Talk about thumbs up!

Membership is open to DC residents 21 years of age with green thumbs who have paid the $420 membership fee. You’ll receive expert classes on the entire life cycle of indoor cannabis gardening; from growing, harvesting, bud tending, to the curing of your cannabis.

For the introductory price of $420, you will get:
— One ounce every month
— Free indica, saliva, hybrid, and autoflowering seeds every month
— Access to the District’s finest grow-ops
— Access to Private Smoking Lounges
— Recipes for Tinctures & Edibles
— Extraction Techniques
— Cloning How-to’s
— Pest & Odor Eradication Tips
— Referral Bonus Buds
and so much more!

The time to join the DC Cannabis Consumers Association is now! After April 20, 2015, the membership fees will rise to $4,200 in order to keep out any people who didn’t vote for Initiative 71. Don’t delay, join today!

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DC Board of Elections Approves Ballot Initiative Language

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Today we received word from the DC Board of Elections that our ballot initiative has been approved!

SO WHAT IS NEXT? According to Section 1002 of the DC Elections Laws, the Board of Elections now has up to 20 calendar days to create a summary of the initiative, a short title of the initiative, and amend the initiative to conform to any laws that were passed since we submitted the initiative back in January. Once completed, the Board of Elections has 5 more days to notify the DC Cannabis Campaign of any changes and then submit the finalized ballot initiative to the DC Register for publication. Finally, once published in the DC Register, the public has 10 days to challenge the summary, short title, or the legislative form of the ballot initiative. After the expiration of the challenge period, the Board of Elections will issue the DC Cannabis Campaign the nominating petitions, and we’ll have until July 7 to collect more than 25,000 valid signatures from DC voters.

We hope the Board of Elections will work quickly to finalize the ballot initiative so we can start collecting signatures as soon as possible!

Here’s the approval letter from the DC Board of Elections:

Washington Post: Advocates press for marijuana legalization measure on D.C. ballot

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The District should set aside the warnings of its attorney general and let voters decide whether they want to legalize marijuana possession in the nation’s capital, advocates for the measure argued Tuesday before the D.C. Board of Elections.

The band of marijuana advocates is seeking to make the District one of the first East Coast cities to legalize marijuana possession. If it successfully gets the measure on the November ballot, legalization has a strong chance of being approved, according to a recent Washington Post poll, and it could hasten the arrival in Washington of a debate that has simmered mostly in Western states.

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SOURCE: Aaron C. Davis, Washington Post

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WAMU: Soap Maker Who Backed Pot Legalization In Colorado Supports Same Effort In D.C.

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A California-based organic soap maker is putting big money into a ballot initiative that would legalize marijuana in D.C., following similar donations to initiatives that did the same in Colorado and Washington state.

David Bronner, owner of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, has donated $20,000 to the initiative, which was filed with the D.C. Board of Elections in January. If it makes it to the November ballot and is approved by voters, D.C. residents over the age of 21 would be allowed to possess up to two ounces of marijuana, sell one ounce at a time and keep three mature plants in their homes.

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SOURCE: Martin Austermuhle, WAMU

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National Journal: D.C.’s Pot Legalization Initiative Gets Some Unexpected Star Power

My FOX DC – Obama: Marijuana no more dangerous than alcohol

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President Obama doesn’t think marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol, “in terms of its impact on the individual consumer,” he told “The New Yorker” magazine in an interview.

“As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life. I don’t think it is more dangerous than alcohol,” the president said.

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SOURCE: Matt Ackland, My FOX DC

WJLA: D.C. Cannabis Campaign pushes to legalize marijuana

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WASHINGTON (WJLA) – Many people would prefer to keep pot out of the District, but now there’s a grassroots effort to loosen the law so residents can light up legally.

According to the man behind the movement, it’s time D.C. gets with the times:

“This is the number one civil rights issue of our day,” said Adam Eidinger. “Nobody is going to jail for anything quite like this.”

The D.C. Cannabis Campaign chair is making legalizing marijuana his mission.

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SOURCE: Jenny Doren, WJLA

Washington Times: D.C. proposal would allow ounce of weed, 6 plants per household

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“Activists in Washington, D.C., plan to submit an initiative by week’s end that would put marijuana legalization on the ballot in the nation’s capital in November — making the city one of a handful of jurisdictions poised to ask voters to consider the issue this year.

The proposal that is expected to be submitted to the D.C. Board of Elections would allow residents to legally grow up to six marijuana plants per household and possess and transfer up to an ounce of the drug without penalty.

Submission of the ballot language is just the beginning of an arduous process that will require supporters, who have formed a campaign committee and recruited volunteers, to collect thousands of signatures and persuade voters to approve the measure.”

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SOURCE: Andrea Noble, Washington Times

Also see DCist: Marijuana Activists Will Submit Final Legalization Ballot Initiative This Week