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by gozur88 3739 days ago
>Personal possession of weed is already completely legal under federal law via the equal protection clause. Once they passed the law saying that it's legal in DC, that means that it's now legal everywhere, even if they haven't yet taken the time to strike the old language from the books.

Pot isn't legal in DC. It's still against federal law everywhere in the US.

Not that Congress actually has the power, under the constitution, to make possession illegal. But that boat sailed long ago.