The Washington, D.C. Metropolis Council on Tuesday unanimously accepted a invoice to permit medical hashish sufferers with expired program ID playing cards to proceed utilizing the playing cards by means of the top of January, DCist studies. The proposal had included provisions to ramp up enforcement on hashish “gifting” within the District, however these had been eliminated previous to the vote.
The invoice additionally creates two-year medical hashish ID playing cards — as a substitute of the present one-year playing cards — and will increase the quantity of hashish medical sufferers should purchase from 4 ounces to eight.
The gifting enforcement provisions had been eliminated following an outcry from outlets and advocates however Metropolis Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, who launched the laws, mentioned the apply must be addressed ultimately, the report says.
Councilmember Janeese Lewis George thanked Mendelson for eradicating the gifting enforcement proposals from the invoice, saying they wanted extra public remark and that lawmakers may think about the destiny of gifting once they think about the invoice to permit adult-use hashish gross sales — that invoice is about for a public listening to later this month.
Even when the council passes the regulation to permit hashish gross sales to adults, it will not be carried out until Congress removes the so-called Harris Rider which prevents adult-use gross sales in D.C. regardless of voters approving the reforms in 2014.
The choice to increase the validity of expired medical hashish ID playing cards and create two-year playing cards comes after greater than 6,000 of D.C.’s 12,000 registered sufferers misplaced entry to this system after the town’s pandemic-related public emergency ended which had allowed sufferers with expired playing cards to proceed buying medical hashish.
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