“For us it’s a milestone. It was a lot harder than we thought it was going to be.”

After three years, Capitol Hemp is back open.

Almost a year after police raided it, Adams Morgan’s Capitol Hemp is closing its doors. But one of the store’s owners still believes that they were unfairly targeted by politicians and police.

On the day it was supposed to shut down due to a run-in with D.C. police last year, Adams Morgan’s Capitol Hemp has received a reprieve of sorts—it’ll remain open for at least another six weeks.

Capitol Hemp may be closing its two stores in August, but it isn’t going quietly—nor will it disappear altogether.

Months after being raided by D.C. police for allegedly selling drug paraphernalia, Capitol Hemp will close the doors on its two D.C. locations in August.

Looking for a copy of Andrew Sullivan’s “The Cannabis Closet”? You’re not going to find it at Adams Morgan’s Capitol Hemp, which stopped selling books on drugs and the drug war over fears that they could be used to justify another police raid.

It’s not looking like much came of last October’s police raid of two Capitol Hemp locations in the District.

The two owners of Capitol Hemp turned themselves in to police this morning after they were told that a warrant had been issued for their arrest.

Last week, we got a hold of the affidavit justifying the late October raids on Capitol Hemp’s Adams Morgan and Chinatown locations. Yesterday, we happened across the affidavits supporting the raids on two others Adams Morgan head shops — Shiva and B&K News Stand.