Photos & Video of Catharsis on the Mall

A big thank you goes out to all the volunteers who helped make Catharsis on the Mall: A Vigil for Healing the Drug War a HUGE success. To pay for this free event, we are still trying to hit our goal of $4,000, so please donate a little green! We hope to organize this type vigil again and have created a Facebook Page to help get the word out. Donations are used entirely to offset costs of building materials, permits, and rentals.


The Temple of Essence was open to the public for 24 hours allowing people to write on the walls inside messages about the drug war.
Michael Verdon’s Temple of Essence was open to the public for 24 hours allowing people to write on the walls inside messages about the drug war.(Photo by Kenny Reff)


Photo by Cherry Savoy
More than 1000 people attended a midnight burning of artist Michael Verdon’s Temple of Essence on the national Mall on November 21, 2015. Contained inside the temple were all copies of petitions signed by 56,000 people that put Initiative 71 on the ballot to legalize marijuana. (Photo by Cherry Savoy)

Once burning Verdon's temple transformed by fire into a rendition of a jail cell.  Only when the lotus shaped temple burned down could one see the bars of the cell which eventually collapsed to the cheers of all in attendance.
Once burning Verdon’s temple transformed by fire into a rendition of a jail cell. Only when the lotus shaped temple burned down could one see the bars of the cell which eventually collapsed to the cheers of all in attendance. (Photo by Kenny Reff)


Check out some more photos from Catharsis: DCist, Kenny Reff, Ben Droz, Matt Eclair, William Tanksley, and many more on the Facebook Event Page.


#ShowYourGrow – Photos of DC’s Legal Indoor Cannabis Gardens

Send us photos of your indoor garden!

As we gear up toward this Fall’s first legal cannabis harvest in Washington, DC, we’d love to share photos of your indoor cannabis gardens. Dubbed #ShowYourGrow on Twitter, we’d like to start including photographs in future DCMJ emails, as well as showcase them here on the website.

Please email your indoor garden photos to ShowYourGrow@DCMJ.org and indicate in your email whether you want to remain Anonymous or if you want your name published, the name of the strains (if known) in the photo, and the Ward your indoor garden is located in (or your Zipcode if you don’t know your Ward). Please send us your favorite photo instead of multiple photos! Unfortunately, we will not use photos that have been taken outdoors.

IMPORTANT: if you are sending us (or strangers!) photos taken from your phone, be sure to remove the GPS info in the photo’s EXIF data. Click here for a decent guide on how to strip the GPS data from your photos. Why remove the GPS data? When you take the photo and share it, you may be telling everyone the precise location of where your indoor garden is located and may be inviting some unwanted company.


Check out the #ShowYourGrow photos:


Anonymous – Ward 1 – Unknown Strain



Tyler – Ward 1 – Pineapple Punch



Susan Remmers – Ward 1 – Unknown Strains



Chester – Ward 1 – White Widow



Anonymous – Ward 1 – Blue Cheese



IRoc Green – Ward 2 – Georgetown Skunk Haze



Mimi – Ward 3 – OG Kush



@CannagrowDC – Ghost Ship – Ward 3



Anonymous – Ward 4 – White Widow



Devin – Ward 4 – Unknown Strain



Juan from www.DCCoGo.com – Ward 4 – Deep Purple Kush & White Widow



YogiTree – Ward 4 – Girl Scout Cookies



YogiTree – Ward 4 – GSC, Sensi Star, Blueberry



Tony Parker – Ward 4 – Rude Boi OG



Uptown-town Grow – Ward 4 – White Widow



Mr. Childs – Ward 4 – Purple Pineberry



Farmer Greg – Ward 4 – Nebula



DeeCee Grow – Ward 4 – Unknown Strain



Henry Chinasky – Ward 4 – Unknown Strain, Maui Waui, and Haze #1



Shane – Ward 4 – OG Kush



Darthvapor – Ward 4 – Starcloud



Anonymous – Ward 5 – Blue Diesel



Anonymous – Ward 5 – Unknown Strain



Cameron – Ward 5 – “Cash Crop” & “Auto Shark”



Anonymous – Ward 5 – “Urban Poison” & “NYPD”



BloomingdaleBud – Ward 5 – Blue Kush, Amnesia Haze, Northern Lights, and NYC Diesel



Chuck Diesel – Ward 5 – Blue Dream, Lemon Kush, Blueberry, Afghan Kush, Iced Widow



Anonymous – Ward 5 – Afghan Skunk, Blue Dream, Tangerine Dream and Pineapple Express



Flip Thompson – Ward 6 – “Fast and Vast”



Meowiecat – Ward 6 – Autoflower Northern Lights



Singing Bud – Ward 6 – M3



Anonymous – Ward 6 – Strawberry Blue



Anonymous – Ward 6 – Dark Angel



Anonymous – Ward 6 – Pineapple Chunk



Lionshare NE – Ward 7- Unknown Strain



Monica – Ward 7 – M3



DC Pharma – Ward 7 – Unknown Strain + THC Bomb



Anonymous – Ward 8 – Unknown Strain



BlaQue, The Authoress – Ward 8 – Train Wreck & Purp



BlaQue, The Authoress – Ward 8 – Purple Haze



Dank Boy’z – Ward 8 – Mrs. Buttersworth (Apricot Kush X Girl Scout Cookies)



Dante – Ward 8 – Lemon Kush & Northern Lights


(Last Updated July 16, 2015)

E-mail ShowYourGrow@DCMJ.org to submit your photos!

Photos from the “Evening of Comedy” Fundraiser

A big thank you to everyone who joined us last night to support the DC Cannabis Campaign!

The DC Cannabis Campaign will be organizing more fundraisers throughout 2014 to support the passage of the ballot initiative. Signup for the DC Cannabis Campaign’s email list on the right side of this page to stay informed about upcoming events.



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