From the Cannabis Campaign’s election party. Photo by Matt Cohen.

In light of D.C.’s recent legalization of marijuana, the D.C. Council passed emergency legislation yesterday to ensure that “pot clubs” won’t start popping up.

Under the new law, District residents are allowed to legally possess, consume, and grow marijuana within the privacy of their own residences, but Mayor Muriel Bowser was concerned that this could lead to private pot clubs, turning D.C. into Amsterdam. And thus she proposed emergency legislation that will prohibit smoking pot in any place where the public is invited, such as a bar or restaurant.

The bill was unanimously passed by the D.C. Council yesterday, which unsurprisingly did not please marijuana legalization advocates. “District residents didn’t vote last November to bankrupt and incarcerate the owners of businesses where cannabis is consumed,” Adam Eidinger, chairman of the D.C. Cannabis Campaign, said in a statement. “The D.C. Council has blurred the clear line drawn by Initiative 71 between public and private consumption.”

But even the Council’s most staunch pro-marijuana members agreed with Boswer’s proposal. “I believe that if we don’t pass this emergency, there will be unintended consequences in neighborhoods throughout the city,” Councilmember David Grosso (I-At Large), who has proposed his own marijuana taxation and regulation bill, said. “And that it’s our responsibility as a legislative body to do the best we can to recognize that we represent everyone in this city and that people shouldn’t be inconvenienced because a particular club or something pops up in their neighborhood without any regulation or public input.”

In response, Cannabis Campaign members are threatening a “public smoke-in” to protest the legislation.