DCMJ Co-founder Adam Eidinger in the White House. (Photo via Twitter.)

Cannabis legalization group DCMJ co-founders Adam Eidinger and Nikolas Schiller spoke their piece in a half hour meeting at the White House this afternoon, and want to return soon to meet with “higher-level” officials.

Eidinger characterizes the meeting with the Office of National Drug Control Policy as “friendly.” He declined to name the people with whom DCMJ spoke. “They didn’t say much, but their body language was so positive,” he says.

Eidinger and Schiller talked about removing cannabis from its current classification as a Schedule One drug, something that the Drug Enforcement Agency recently said it was considering.

“I put a suit on, I didn’t wear my hat,” says Eidinger. “I wanted to show respect and total appreciation for this meeting.”

That doesn’t mean the liberty caps were missing in action, though. They brought some for President Barack Obama and the officials, which Eidinger says were accepted, along with filter tips “that tell the story of our activism.”

But the big ask from DCMJ was for more interaction with the White House. “Our main request is a ‘Bud Summit,'” says Eidinger, who describes a “green-ribbon panel” that would convene to discuss the issue of legalization and include activists beyond DCMJ. “There were 20 chairs in the room,” says Eidinger. “That room should have been full of people.”

The officials did not commit to another meeting, according to Eidinger. He says that DCMJ will wait until the end of the month before planning another emergency protest like the White House smoke-in, only he says the next one will be even bigger. “We have the numbers. People are fired up,” says Eidinger.

Folks won’t have to wait until the end of the month for some action, though. Members of DCMJ are headed to Maryland tomorrow to campaign against Maryland Congressman Andy Harris, whose Congressional rider complicates D.C.’s ability to legalize marijuana.

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