There’s been a gray area in the laws around selling cannabis in D.C. since residents voted to allow people and shops to gift cannabis.
In July, the D.C. Council passed legislation clarifying the law, and the District has been cracking down on the stores officials say are illegally selling cannabis. As that enforcement continues, police say some of the shuttered and padlocked stores were found to have other illegal drugs.
“We recovered amounts of cannabis, as well as, in one case, suspected heroin, mushrooms,” said Jeffery Carroll, the executive assistant chief of police…