Update: DC Cannabis Enforcement

The DC Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Administration (“ABCA”) Enforcement Division continues to exercise its enforcement authority against allegedly unlawful cannabis and entheogenic mushroom businesses in the District. A wave of enforcement activity has occurred after the DC Council passed emergency legislation this summer aimed at expanding and clarifying the ABCA’s civil enforcement powers. The emergency legislation expressly granted ABCA investigators the authority to conduct announced and unannounced inspections of unlicensed establishments because these investigators need “clear statuto