Regulators in Washington DC will start cracking down on gray-market marijuana “gifting” stores, as they’re known, beginning next month.
According to DCist, the city’s Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration (ABRA) will begin inspecting such stores for “health code, tax and licensing violations” with a new Joint Cannabis Task Force comprised of multiple agencies.
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The crackdown could have a significant impact on DC’s thriving cannabis gray market, which popped up in the wake of adult-use legalization for possession and consumption in 2014. A formal regulated industry in the district has been blocked by Congress ever since.
Also legalized at the time was the practice of “gifting” marijuana from one adult to another, which gave rise to overpriced mainstream goods such as T-shirts, which are accompanied by
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