some republican members of congress are calling for arrests. mayor, how do you react to the talk that you might go to jail. that part of this? well, you heard that we believe that we re acting lawfully. so i have a lot of things to do here in the district of columbia. me being in jail would not be a good thing. joining me now is the mayor of washington dc. mayor bowser, thank you for being here tonight. thank you, it s my pleasure to be here. clearly you re not in jail. i imagine there is a lot of attention between dc and city government because of this constitutional role in stopping dc from doing things it wants to do. did you expect it would come to the point where they would be threatenning to jail you.
rule. in alaska this weird situation where only gardeners can get high, that situation exists now in alaska but it won t forever. they think by this time next year they will have regulations in place to people will be able to legally buy pot in the state instead of having to grow it or get it for free. that will change in alaska in a year or so. it will not change while the republicans are in congress. there is no republican member of congress from dc there are a handful of republican congressman specifically to stop dc from implementing their own law with dc residents passed with 70% of the vote. with the relic that allows
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.
to try to stop the city and stop you from going ahead with this, what other options do they have. what is at risk for you and dc? well the congress can act in a lot of ways. they have, and if your viewers don t know this, they have jurisdiction over the district of columbia in a lot of ways. the congress well knows how to stop things when they want to stop things. they have done it in the past. they attacked our ability to support women s reproductive health issues. they attacked our clean needle exchange, and medical marijuana. the answer for us is statehood so that americans that live and pay taxes in the district of columbia can have a voting member of congress, our eleanor holmes norton, and we would have
being told that going ahead with this law in this limited way mean that the mayor and city council ought to go to prison. some republican members of congress are calling for arrests. mayor, how do you react to the talk that you might go to jail. that part of this? well, you heard that we believe that we re acting lawfully. so i have a lot of things to do here in the district of columbia. me being in jail would not be a good thing. joining me now is the mayor of washington dc. mayor bowser, thank you for being here tonight. thank you, it s my pleasure to be here. clearly you re not in jail. i imagine there is a lot of