In Public Housing, a Cannabis Catch-22

On June 19, District of Columbia Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced a bill to allow residents living in federally subsidized housing to consume medical cannabis in their homes. For D.C. activists, it was the culmination of years of work trying to bring attention in our nation’s capital to what can often be an invisible loophole in the cannabis debate: for people living in low-income housing, cannabis is illegal in their homes, even if it’s legal in their home state or district.