Anyone 21 or older could buy medical marijuana without a prescription under the proposal, which would also impose penalties on stores giving out cannabis with the purchase of other items. Such businesses have taken off in the city, where pot is legal but Congress has blocked efforts to establish a recreational market.
Founder, National Cannabis Festival and National Cannabis Policy Summit
As a kid growing up in 16th Street Heights during the ’90s and early 2000s, she’d watch her neighbors’ residences being raided for pot offenses. As an adult, she has turned her hometown into a destination for weed stans, organizing the area’s first cannabis festival in 2016. Nearly 20,000 people attended the last in-person event, at RFK; it now includes a policy component, too.Back to Top
The Growers
Co-owners, Phyto Management and Maryland Cultivation and Processing
When longtime lawyer and Reagan campaign counsel Ed Weidenfeld was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, his son introduced him to farmer and Landon alum Andras Kirschner. The pair became partners in pot-growing ventures in Hagerstown and DC. The latter, Phyto, was DC’s highest-grossing in 2019, with $3.2 million in revenue. “I once thought cannabis would put users on the path to inevitable addiction,” Weidenfeld says. Now it “keeps me cl