Drug Policy Alliance, supported by more than 50 criminal justice reform, business, labor and drug policy organizations, sent a letter to a key House and Senate appropriators along with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, demanding to keep the removal of the appropriations rider that has prevented the District of Columbia from spending its own money to legalize and regulate adult-use marijuana sales.
While adult-use cannabis was made legal in Washington D.C. in 2014, a rider contained in all presidential budget proposals since that date has prevented the state from exercising those laws.
