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D.C.’s first medical marijuana dispensary hopes for April opening
By Greta Kreuz February 14, 2013 – 11:53 pm
Medical marijuana experts and activists are coming to D.C. for a national conference next week – just as the district’s first medical marijuana dispensaries gear up for business.
The city has licensed six facilities to grow the drug and four shops to sell medicinal marijuana.
Capital City Care on North Capitol Street is one of those shops. They hope to open in early April, becoming the district’s first medical marijuana dispensary.
General manager David Guard said the rules will be the strictest in the country.
“The receptionist will double check your ID, issued by the Department of Health, against their database,” Guard explained.
What used to be a Curves gym is now a pot shop, with bamboo woodwork, soft lighting and customers lining up.
Guard said, “We get knocks on the door almost on a daily basis now… from MS patients to cancer patients and AIDS patients.”
Only D.C. residents with specific illnesses can buy the marijuana. They can buy up to two ounces a month, which is subject to D.C. sales tax. Customers are not permitted to smoke on the premises.
Besides raw marijuana, they’ll also sell pot-infused cookies, brownies, candy and drinks – all made at Capital Care’s cultivation center in Northeast.
…note that Washington Post reporter Mike DeBonis picked up on the WJLA story: Medical marijuana in D.C. by April?
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