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When the D.C. Cannabis Coalition announced they’d be handing out 4,200 joints on Inauguration Day, they didn’t realize how much work it’d be to roll them all.

“We’re having to roll joints daily,” says Adam Eidinger, the cofounder of DCMJ, a cannabis advocacy group that spearheaded the passage of Initiative 71, which legalized weed in the District.

On Tuesday, for instance, six people spent three hours grinding and rolling up doobies. “424 is the final count,” he says. “We were tired. People had blisters.” (The person operating the grinder got the blisters.)

But come January 20, members of the D.C. Cannabis Coalition are set on meeting on the west side of Dupont Circle at 8 a.m., with breakfast food and thousands of joints, to push the incoming administration to come out with an agenda to legalize cannabis. They’re calling it “The Inaugural #Trump420.”

“I want to be abundantly clear that this is an olive branch to Trump supporters, an olive branch to Trump, a chance to articulate their position on marijuana reform,” says Eidinger.

The group will give away the joints for two hours before marching towards the National Mall at 10 a.m., handing out more ganja as they go so that they don’t have anything visible left by the time they reach federal land.

As long as each of the people giving away weed has less than two ounces on their person, the gifting gambit is legal. Eidinger says they’re taking steps to ensure that everyone stays under that limit. “That’s the key thing,” he says. “I’m not bringing 4,200 joints, the community is bringing 4,200 joints, maybe more.” How many joints equals two ounces, however, depends on the size.

They’re asking people not to smoke the joint as soon as they get it. Instead, they’re encouraging folks to light up wherever they are exactly four minutes and 20 seconds after Trump is sworn in. If people are in their houses, then toking is legal, but not so much if they’re in a public place. Then, Eidinger says, it’s civil disobedience.

They’re looking for the president-elect to clarify what he intends to do about marijuana, specifically in the District. “The guy tweets about everything—when are we gonna get our tweet? Every day we get closer to [Senator Jeff] Sessions being attorney general and Trump not saying anything, it’s a day we worry about going to jail.”

DCMJ has been staging a series of “Smoke Sessions” protests against the Alabama senator Trump nominated to be AG, who is avowedly opposed to legalized weed.

“We want Senator Sessions to have a rehab of sorts on his whole position on marijuana,” he says. Yesterday, the group was back at it, first with a welcome sign for Hill staffers at Union Station and then heading to the Senate with their liberty caps.

DCMJ focuses its ire on both political parties. Last April, the group organized a smoke-in at the White House to protest the drug’s classification, ultimately earning a meeting with members of the Obama administration, though not a rescheduling of weed.

Four years ago, Eidinger helped give away 50 pounds of carrots (“That’s a lot of carrots,” he says) to get people talking about GMO food labeling during Obama’s second inauguration. “We thought, should we bring sticks or carrots?” he says. “It was a friendly gesture to advance the issue.”

He sees the weed giveaway as another token of goodwill. “Giving away marijuana to people who are mystified by it, who think its dangerous, is a great opportunity,” he says. “I have friends doing disrupt D.C. protests, but I think right now, you have an opportunity to make friends with Republicans, an opportunity to welcome your new neighbors.”

But there’s one way to prevent the whole Inaugural #Trump420 giveaway from ever taking place. “If Donald Trump called me up and said that D.C. has nothing to worry about and we want your help rewriting the laws, I would call off the thing in a heartbeat,” Eidinger says. “The whole thing is a pain in the ass. Why do we have to do this? We hear nothing coming from the incoming administration and that silence is deafening.”