Daily Updates from HillRag
Tag: Marijuana
“Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t”
One early fall afternoon in 2021, 66-year-old John “Bo” Kenney and his wife, Shannon Biggs, were going about their business at their second home...
Illegal Cannabis Poses Risks to Consumers and the Public
In 2023, District resident Steph Sherer ate an edible to help with pain as she recovered from surgery. A few hours later, she woke...
Tepid Enforcement May Doom Medical Cannabis
“We’re just losing money every month,” said Grace Hyde, director of operations for District Cannabis, a licensed cultivator, manufacturer and cannabis retailer. Five such...
ANCs Consider Applications for Retail Medical Marijuana
The medical cannabis licensing race is on. At their Jan. 9 meeting, Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 6B heard an application to ABCA from UpNSmoke...
ANCs Consider Applications for Retail Medical Marijuana
The medical cannabis licensing race is on.
Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 6B protested an application from UpNSmoke LLC (427 Eighth St. SE, former location of...
Cannabis Confusion at ANC 6A
Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC 6A) met via Zoom on Dec. 14. Commissioners Keya Chatterjee (6A01, vice chair), Mike Velasquez (6A02), Roberta Shapiro (6A03), Amber...
Does Gray-Market Cannabis Breed Robberies?
“I got a cellphone literally like a week ago,” a distraught father told the October 2022 meeting of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 6C. “One...
I-71 Enforcement Halted
Mayor Muriel Bowser’s (D) haphazard effort to gain control of DC’s spiraling illegal, gray market for marijuana has been quietly halted after the mayor...
The Wild West of Unregulated Cannabis Retailers
Step past the Dick Tracy caricature on the sign advertising Street Lawyer Services and into the business at 409 H St. NE and you...
Open Air Marijuana Market Flourishes On H Street
A year ago, George Franklin, an alias, was working in his living room when he heard the clatter of footsteps outside the house. The...
