About 30 party guests ... mingled in the candlelit back yard of a small, private home in the Forest Hills neighborhood in Northwest Washington .... Instead of cocktails, they sipped gourmet coffee and tea infused with marijuana. ...
This is the new world of marijuana in the nation’s capital, where residents have been able to legally possess, privately consume and grow limited amounts of pot since February.
The sale and purchase of marijuana remains illegal here, unlike the four states that have fully legalized both recreational and medical marijuana. Instead of being sold at shops and generating new tax revenue, marijuana in the District can be grown at home and shared.
