Bowser signs bill allowing adult DC residents to self-prescribing medical marijuana | WTOP News

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser signed into legislation Wednesday an emergency invoice permitting residents 21 and older to self-prescribe medical marijuana.

Efficient instantly, beneath the brand new legislation, residents over 21 now not want a health care provider’s suggestion for a medical marijuana affected person card, which was required to enter and make purchases at one of many metropolis’s seven medical marijuana dispensaries.

Residents can register for his or her affected person card totally free via Aug. 18 on the Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration’s web site, in particular person on the ABRA’s workplace contained in the Reeves Middle in Northwest or by mail at 2000 14th Road NW, Suite 102A (First Ground), Washington, D.C. 20009.

“We all know that by bringing extra medical marijuana sufferers into the authorized market in a well timed method and doing extra to stage the enjoying subject for licensed medical marijuana suppliers, we will defend residents, help native companies, and supply readability to the group,” Bowser stated in a press release.

The legislation — which handed the D.C. Council in late June — is meant to spice up the enterprise of medical marijuana dispensaries whereas dealing a blow to unregulated marijuana “gifting outlets.”

There are a number of dozen unregulated gifting outlets all through the District, which function via a loophole in D.C.’s 2015 legislation legalizing possession of marijuana.

The gifting outlets present presents of marijuana to patrons of low cost, incidental objects, similar to paintings, clothes or different objects.

Bowser stated the brand new legislation is an “modern answer to a posh subject.” She stated she appears to be like ahead to extra complete medical marijuana laws sooner or later.

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