“We want people who are buying marijuana to buy it from a licensed retailer where the product has gone through testing,” one lawmaker says.

The dispensary’s 13 employees will enjoy five-year contracts, with three raises baked into their salaries a year.

In an effort to bring patients closer to their medicine, D.C. required that two medical marijuana dispensaries open east of the Anacostia River—where none existed before.

In a new 360° video by the Metropolitan Wellness Center dispensary.

It was two years ago today that the D.C. Council gave approval to a medical marijuana program that had been approved by D.C. voters 12 years prior. Advocates complain that marijuana is still months away from the patients that need it most.

Fourteen years ago, 69 percent of the District’s voters approved an initiative legalizing medical marijuana. Today, medical marijuana is no closer for the patients who may need it because of ongoing opposition in the neighborhoods where it would be grown.

The D.C. Council voted today to limit the number of medical marijuana cultivation centers in Ward 5 to six, possibly throwing another wrench in the works of a program that has already been slow to get off the ground.

Councilmember Vincent Orange (D-At Large) has introduced legislation to limit the number of medical marijuana cultivation centers and dispensaries that can locate in any one ward.

Former talk show host Montel Williams is one of medical marijuana’s biggest proponents (he’s also a patient), but his dreams to open a Columbia Road NW dispensary seem to have been dashed by a nervous landlord.

The District’s medical marijuana program is proceeding as quickly as, well, someone with a mighty buzz behind the wheel of a car.