Is the Harris Rider That Prohibits Legal Weed in DC Actually ... Gone?

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Could Washington, DC’s weird market for legal cannabis be on the verge of actually making sense? The House Committee on Appropriations released the text of a draft Financial Services and General Government spending bill Tuesday, with one big omission: Language that Maryland Congressman Andy Harris has inserted into must-pass spending bills every year since DC voters voted to legalize possession and gifts of weed in 2013.

Harris’s rider prohibits DC from creating a legal market for any Schedule I drug, or any THC derivative product for recreational purposes.asked his spokesperson, Anna Adamian, if the absence of the rider meant Harris had dropped his opposition to DC establishing a legal recreational market. “No,” she replied in an email, “Congressman Harris has not changed his mind about the danger of legalizing marijuana in D.C.

 

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