Washington, D.C. will not be able to legalize recreational cannabis sales as part of the budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2025 that the Biden-Harris administration submitted to Congress on Monday.
The D.C. cannabis provision has been blocking the nation’s capital from using its local tax dollars to implement a legal recreational cannabis sales program, even though DC voters overwhelmingly approved cannabis legalization in 2014.
President Joe Biden decided once again to exclude Washington, D.C. from legalizing recreational cannabis sales as part of the Fiscal Year 2025 budget request despite last week’s State of the Union speech, during which he reiterated that no one should be incarcerated for possessing cannabis.
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