You can get weed delivered to your door in D.C. just like pizza. But is it legal?
You can get weed delivered to your door in D.C. just like pizza. But is it legal?
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D.C. residents smoke weed they had delivered to their house when they ordered the District of C art prints on the wall.
In Washington D.C., it is now as easy to get marijuana delivered to your front door as pizza. Really expensive pizza.
More than two years after the District allowed residents to legally cultivate and possess cannabis for personal use, a growing gray market of companies has sprung up that will bring orders of high-priced cookies, juice, clothing or even artwork to your house, along with the “gift” of a few fat buds.
Those who want to imbibe can also pay to attend dance parties and craft fairs where vendors sell edibles and smokables at what one regular terms a “farmers market for weed.” Purchasers get their marijuana after buying another product. But reportedly in some cases sales have become more straightforward — cash for pot.
A website called Leafedin.org connects pot buyers and sellers. Chefs serve cannabis cuisine at ticketed events, and shoppers can buy a $42 T-shirt at a District shop and have a free sample of locally grown product tossed into the bag.
The new pot providers have started to roil the city’s four-year-old medical marijuana network, which requires patients with a prescription to pick up their cannabis in person at an official dispensary. Those operators have asked regulators to grant them authority to go door to door, according to Vanessa West, general manager of Metropolitan Wellness Center.
“It’s hard for us to compete with home delivery,” West said. “A lot of our patients would really benefit from that.”
Most of the companies are exploiting what they hope is a loophole in Initiative 71, the ballot measure that legalized cannabis for personal use. The law, which passed overwhelmingly in 2014, allows residents to grow small amounts of marijuana and possess up to two ounces but forbids buying or selling it. But the statute does permit growers to give away up to an ounce to users 21 and older, and that provision has produced a sly flowering of the cannabis economy.