Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) has signed legislation to suspend the jurisdiction's 6 percent tax on medical cannabis around the 4/20 cannabis celebration, declaring a two-week tax holiday on purchases from April 15 through April 28.
Bowser returned the 4/20 medical cannabis tax holiday legislation to lawmakers on Tuesday after signing it a day earlier. Supporters say the tax holiday would encourage patients and caretakers to shop at legal, licensed dispensaries rather than obtain cannabis through the illicit market.
The District Council unanimously approved the proposal earlier this month.
"The popular tax holiday is critical to the District's effort to attract qualifying patients back to the legal market," Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie (I), who introduced the measure on behalf of Bowser's office, said at the time.
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