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4 Arrests After Pot ‘Smoke In’ on Capitol Lawn

By Alex Gangitano
Posted April 24, 2017 at 7:27pm

By Alex Gangitano and Thomas McKinless

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Four demonstrators with the pro-marijuana group DCMJ were arrested after lighting up joints on the Capitol lawn Monday afternoon, several days after a 4/20 event nearby that lead to seven arrests. Roll Call’s Heard on the Hill reporter Alex Gangitano was at the scene.

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