Recreational marijuana use was legalized in D.C. on Tuesday.
With 100 percent of precincts reporting, 95,531 D.C. voters — 69.4 percent of the vote — voted in favor of Initiative 71, permitting...
D.C. voters will head to the polls today to vote on Initiative 71, a proposal that would legalize the use and cultivation of recreational marijuana in the District.
If the initiative is passed, adults...
Georgetown’s age-old pledge to promote social justice around the world is a basic tenet of our mission as a university. This election cycle, many Georgetown students, as well as all voters in the...
Washington, D.C. residents will vote on a new initiative Nov. 4 that would legalize marijuana in the District, prompting the formation of opposition group Two Is Enough D.C., which aims to urge voters...
Marijuana decriminalization arrived in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, after a law passed by the D.C. Council in March took effect at midnight, but the university’s marijuana policy will see no change.
Under...
On Monday, the Maryland Senate voted overwhelmingly to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana, following in the footsteps of 24 other states, including the District of Columbia.
The...
The city of Washington, D.C., looks undeniably different today than it did 20 years ago.
A growing Metro system, a shrinking unemployment rate, a sharp decrease in violent crime and a revitalized downtown...
Possession and private use of marijuana will no longer be treated as a criminal offense in D.C. for individuals over 21 under a bill passed by the D.C. Council with a vote of 10 to one Tuesday, pending...
As legislation to both legalize and decriminalize marijuana makes its way to the Council of the District of Columbia, reform of laws regarding the drug has become an important issue for candidates in the...
The D.C. Council is poised to pass a bill that would decriminalize the possession of small amounts of recreational marijuana in the District.
The “Simple Possession of Small Quantities of Marijuana...
In response to a severe racial discrepancy among those arrested for marijuana-related offenses, D.C. Councilmember David Grosso (I-At Large) introduced a bill Tuesday that would legalize recreational...
A degree from Georgetown Law will teach you many things. Keith Stroup (LAW '68), chief legal counsel and former executive director for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML),...
