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Pot? among other things, you cannot sell pot. are you sure? can't i sell pot? no, you cannot. you can give away up to one ounce of marijuana in alaska, but only, quote, without remuneration. you cannot be paid at all if you give someone pot. that means anything. they have to point out that exchanging firewood for marijuana, for instance, that would be payment and you can't do that. those are your options for legally obtaining pot that you're legally allowed to possess and smoke. the only legal way to get it is to grow it themselves or be incredibly charming. washington d.c. coined a new slogan...

Washington dc. they have legal pot now, stores and dispensaries where you can walk off the street and buy a joint. they have legalized it already in washington and in colorado. this week, alaska and washington dc joined them. both of those places pot is also now legal. however, unlike in colorado and washington, in alaska and dc there are no pot stores. there is no place where you can buy it. if you're 21 or over it is legal to possess a certain amount of pot. it is also legal to smoke pot as long as you don't do it in public. but how are you supposed to get this pot that you can legally posse...

Will be bus trips of people going from dc to utah. i spent some time here. hear in this weird moment right now that temporarily in alaska and permanently in dc you can smoke pot, you can have pot, but you can't get pot. it is like a radical gardening mandate. that is weird enough. but on top of that washington dc's mayor and city council are being told that going ahead with this law in this limited way mean that the mayor and city council ought to go to prison. some republican members of congress are calling for arrests. >> mayor, how do you react to

That is the mantra. you can only use pot at home, not out in public, and the only pot you can use is pot that you, or somebody you love, has created from dirt, seed, water, and light. home use, home grown. of course because it is dc, there is the problem of home rule. in alaska, this weird situation where only gardeners can get high, that situation exists now in alaska, but it won't forever. they think by this time next year they will have regulations in place to people will be able to legally buy pot in the state instead of having to grow it or get it for free. that will change in alaska in a...