The process for acquiring marijuana at the pot shop a few storefronts away from Reason's D.C. office is pretty straightforward. You walk in, order off a menu, provide a cash donation to one attendant, receive your weed from another and go. Things can get a little more elaborate at other brick-and-motor dispensaries in the city, where one purchases a perfunctory lighter or t-shirt for $45 and receives a "gift" of marijuana in exchange.
These gifting operations are an odd quirk of D.C.'s status as a federal district that also legalized weed.
