New D.C. Bill Would Legalize Marijuana Sales, Pay Reparations To People Arrested For Marijuana Offenses

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A new bill in the D.C. Council would legalize and regulate the sales of recreational marijuana, while also creating a reparations fund with payments for people arrested, convicted, or incarcerated for marijuana-related offenses prior to 2015.

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Why not use the money for schools or making DC safer? instead of giving it to people that were arrested for doing something illegal

It was against the law and everyone knew it so why do we have to pay criminals reparations?

The whole city smells of marijuana, inc.corridors of some residential DC also thinking of how to protect non-consumers from second-hand smoke and disgusting smell of marijuana?

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