congress to interfere in the local laws of dc these republicans in the house were not able to block the dc city counsel and the mayor from establishing any rules and regulations regarding the sale of pot in the districts. they will not have pot stores. that is why there has been a run on flower pots and mierkracle grow right? even though they blocked ways of selling pot, they do not have appeared to block dc on moving ahead in the other things approved in that initiative like legalizing and smoking pot. so dc's mayor and city counsel, the police chief, and the local authorities made their plans for legalization to go into effect as of midnight last night. they put out that flier explaining what it means.