Subject: Afternoon Buzz: D.C. mayor: Despite legal pot, city will not become ‘like Amsterdam’
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D.C. mayor: Despite legal pot, city will not become ‘like Amsterdam’ <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a529018402bhz3.4g8d/VOy9BsPoQUE6j2JsA9623>
Aaron C. Davis, Peter Hermann
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser vowed Tuesday that the nation’s capital will not become another Amsterdam when marijuana legalization takes effect Thursday.Bowser said she would ask the D.C. Council to approve emergency legislation to prohibit private clubs from following the model of Amsterdam coffee shops, where pot could be openly exchanged. Read full article &gt;&gt; [Read full article »] <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a529018402bhz3.4g8d/VOy9BsPoQUE6j2JsA9623> 

Everything you need to know to stay out of jail when pot is legal in D.C. <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a529018402bhz3.4g8d/VOy9BsPoQUE6j2JtA4842>
Perry Stein
At 12:01 a.m. on Thursday, marijuana will be legal in the District, and, for better or worse, city leaders want you to know that the nation’s capital will not turn into Amsterdam. Mayor Muriel Bowser released some guidance Tuesday on what will happen when Initiative 71 — the measure that voters overwhelmingly approved in November — goes into effect Thursday. Possession will be legal, but selling the plant, for instance, could land you in jail.Read full article &gt;&gt; [Read full article »] <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a529018402bhz3.4g8d/VOy9BsPoQUE6j2JtA4842> 

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Jason Samenow, Wes Junker
Most models predict the storm will just brush the D.C. area with a little light snow, but some modeling suggests more substantial amounts are possible. [Read full article »] <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a529018402bhz3.4g8d/VOy9BsPoQUE6j2JuA73f3> 

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John Kelly
Mark Handle was coming home at last. After yet another deployment to Afghanistan, the 58-year-old Army soldier was returning to Baltimore.No one was more excited about this than Dede, a 60-year-old Montgomery County woman who’d met Mark five months earlier.Read full article &gt;&gt; [Read full article »] <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a529018402bhz3.4g8d/VOy9BsPoQUE6j2JvA75bb> 

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Ovetta Wiggins
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Police search for suspect after shots fired near Arundel Mills mall area <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a529018402bhz3.4g8d/VOy9BsPoQUE6j2JxA43e9>
Dana Hedgpeth
Anne Arundel County police said they continued to look for a suspect they believe was involved in a shooting Tuesday morning outside a pet store near the Arundel Mills shopping complex.The incident began just before 8 a.m. in the 7000 block of Arundel Mills Circle when police said they received reports of shots being fired outside a PetSmart store there.Read full article &gt;&gt; [Read full article »] <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a529018402bhz3.4g8d/VOy9BsPoQUE6j2JxA43e9> 

95-year-old man slain in Montgomery County <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a529018402bhz3.4g8d/VOy8i8PoINZoMHa0A30bb>
Dan Morse
Montgomery County police are investigating the homicide of a 95-year-old man in the Colesville area, officials said Tuesday. The victim was found dead shortly after noon on Monday.Police were called to the scene — an apartment in the 500 block of Randolph Road — after a concerned friend of the victim hadn’t heard from him. Read full article &gt;&gt; [Read full article »] <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a529018402bhz3.4g8d/VOy8i8PoINZoMHa0A30bb> 

Poll: Half of Virginia voters approve of McAuliffe’s job performance <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a529018402bhz3.4g8d/VOy9BsPoQUE6j2JyA96c8>
Jenna Portnoy
RICHMOND — A new poll shows about half of Virginia voters approve of Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s job performance in his first year, and more are optimistic about the rest of his term.McAuliffe (D), who took office in early 2014, has an approval rating of 49 percent compared with 25 percent who disapprove and 26 percent who remain undecided, according to a Quinnipiac University Poll released Tuesday.Read full article &gt;&gt; [Read full article »] <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a529018402bhz3.4g8d/VOy9BsPoQUE6j2JyA96c8> 

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